Enhancing the Debian/Ubuntu Zope infrastructure

[Bernd Zeimetz]

Heya,

> Skels aren't working for ZEO servers as zeo.conf is hardcoded in python
> files. I wrote a patch for this in zope collector some years ago.

At the moment I don't see any reason why we'd need a skeleton support to
install Zeo instances. It's supported for Zope instances and that where
we want to use it.

> Why do not use the instancemanager project which yet implements a lot of
> these functionalities ?
> http://svn.plone.org/svn/collective/instancemanager/

Although I didn't test it - but here are my opinions based on reading
the code:

* we need something that's easy to integrate into the packaging
mechanism of Debian, zope-common/zope-debhelper are developed in
parallel and by people who use them for packaging to make sure they work
well together. Integrating and maintaining the bloated up code of
instancemanager is for sure more work then enhancing the existing
infrastructure. Remember that we'd have to check for breakages with
every new upstream version.
* Parts of it depend on an existing Zope installation - we need to be
independent of that.
* it brings too many plone specific things

In short: nothing that would be useful for packaging in a sane way.


Cheers,

Bernd

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Bernd Zeimetz
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