Jim Fulton wrote:
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.
I don't think backups are the right approach. It's a mistake to have
recipes manage precious data. If you really really really think that's
a good idea, then the recipe should at least manage uninstall and move
precious data aside, rather than remove it.
I don't think it is really the user's problem is a recipe misbehaves by
allowing precious data to be removed.
I'll note fassembler uses a file abstraction layer so that its recipes
are safe by default:
https://svn.openplans.org/svn/fassembler/trunk/fassembler/filemaker.py
I think buildout would be a lot more humane if it took the same approach.
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