On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 1:37 PM, Jim Fulton <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Jan 5, 2009, at 2:29 PM, dunia wrote: > >> Hi list >> >> I'm a little bit confused with the buildout configuration files, and i >> can't find any useful information. I get that every part of the buildout has >> a recipe and this recipe takes some configuration options. My question is >> ...how can i know which are those options? I went through the code and found >> most of them, but not all. > > Do you mean, "How do you know which options are available?" > > I'll assume yes. > >> Maybe this is very simple, i recognize that my knowledge of python is not >> as good as it should be...yet ;). Anyways, any hint would be useful for me. > > You have to rely on the recipe documentation. Recipes should provide > documentation that describes how they're used, including what their options > are. Many recipes make this available as part of their PYPI pages (For > example, see http://pypi.python.org/pypi/zc.recipe.deployment). Buildout > doesn't provide an API for a recipe to register or declare the options it > provides. Perhaps it should.
+1 > My philosophy has been to try make as few > demands on recipe authors as possible. As a buildout newbie , I would recommend offering the recipe author a standard way to briefly describe available options. Thanks, Kent > I could see some benefit in > providing an optional registration mechanism that buildout could use if it's > present. > > Jim > > -- > Jim Fulton > Zope Corporation > > > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig > _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
