Re: [Web-SIG] daemon tools

2007-03-08 Thread Jim Fulton
On Mar 7, 2007, at 8:42 AM, Sidnei da Silva wrote: > On Windows, the NT Service Controller does all the dirty job. And it's > pretty easy to write a service in Python that can run any application. > The simplest Python service is shorter than 30 lines I think. Would such a controller: - Invoke

Re: [Web-SIG] [Proposal] "website" and first-level conf

2007-03-08 Thread Chris Withers
Jim Fulton wrote: > > Having everything in one folder is great for development. It isn't so > good for deployment, at least not on Unix. Can you explain why? I do a lot of unix deployment, and the thought of a buildout that sprays files all over the system, even if they are in standard unix-

Re: [Web-SIG] windows daemon tools

2007-03-08 Thread Chris Withers
Rodrigo Senra wrote: > For symmetry's sake in Windows a Python service manager could simply > use SCManager API under the hood (through win32all) to get the job done, > still keeping a consistent cross-platform modus operandi. I would love to see this, particularly for Zope, although I sadly don't

Re: [Web-SIG] more comments on Paste Deploy

2007-03-08 Thread Chris Withers
Jim Fulton wrote: > On Mar 5, 2007, at 4:38 PM, Phillip J. Eby wrote: > ... >> Personally, I don't care for the Paste Deploy syntax -- frankly >> it's almost barbaric. :) > > I don't mean to pick on you, but I really *hate* comments like this. That's okay ;-) > criticism. I'd appreciate i

Re: [Web-SIG] more comments on Paste Deploy

2007-03-08 Thread Fred Drake
On 3/8/07, Chris Withers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm glad ZConfig exists. Me too, though it does many things differently than if I'd had free reign. > How does it handle nesting? It doesn't, but an application can use explicit references to other sections. It doesn't take care of things ma

Re: [Web-SIG] daemon tools

2007-03-08 Thread Sidnei da Silva
On 3/8/07, Jim Fulton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mar 7, 2007, at 8:42 AM, Sidnei da Silva wrote: > > > On Windows, the NT Service Controller does all the dirty job. And it's > > pretty easy to write a service in Python that can run any application. > > The simplest Python service is shorter

Re: [Web-SIG] daemon tools

2007-03-08 Thread Bill Janssen
> For symmetry's sake in Windows a Python service manager could simply > use SCManager API under the hood (through win32all) to get the job done, > still keeping a consistent cross-platform modus operandi. That's what I do in UpLib. Works pretty well. Bill ___

Re: [Web-SIG] [Proposal] "website" and first-level conf

2007-03-08 Thread Rodrigo Senra
[ Chris Withers ]: |I do a lot of unix deployment, and the thought of |a buildout that sprays files all over the system, even if they are in |standard unix-y location scares me a lot... I am very sympathetic to the idea of keeping related thing together. But I have some use cases (counter-exam

Re: [Web-SIG] [Proposal] "website" and first-level conf

2007-03-08 Thread Benji York
Chris Withers wrote: > Jim Fulton wrote: >> Having everything in one folder is great for development. It isn't so >> good for deployment, at least not on Unix. > > Can you explain why? I do a lot of unix deployment, and the thought of a > buildout that sprays files all over the system, even if