Hello I know it is a bad practice for a recipe to return some paths that contains important data in the install() method, because zc.buildout might remove them.
Nevertheless, it happens from time to time that a developer lose some content because of a misconfiguration, or a zealous recipe. That is his responsability, and backups are done for that. But I think we can improve zc.buildout a bit for that: what about introducing a safe-mode where the developer get prompted everytime zc.buildout.rmtree is about to call shutil.rmtree ? The option could be set in [buildout] like this: [buildout] ... safe-mode = true ... and challenge the user when a tree is about to be delete. (it might be overkill for single files, and they are most of the time unimportant configuration files) This is a small change, and it would avoid running a backup everytime the .cfg are changed. because it happens all day long when you are developing. Regards Tarek -- Tarek Ziadé | Association AfPy | www.afpy.org Blog FR | http://programmation-python.org Blog EN | http://tarekziade.wordpress.com/ _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
