[Zope-dev] Re: [ZODB-Dev] Re: End-of-line translation problem

2004-04-30 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Fri, 2004-04-30 at 10:48, Philipp von Weitershausen wrote: But, as the -kb property in CVS has shown, newbies tend to forget these things. Then again, setting svn:eol-style after a file has been added to svn is easier than getting -kb on a file that's already in CVS. I often have to cvs

[Zope-dev] Re: [ZODB-Dev] Re: End-of-line translation problem

2004-04-30 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Fri, 2004-04-30 at 11:33, Jim Fulton wrote: Jim Fulton wrote: ... http://subversion.tigris.org/servlets/BrowseList?list=usersby=threadfrom=184061 Ken pointed out that the links on this page don't work. :( Sigh Neither do many of the next in thread and previous in thread links.

[Zope-dev] Re: [Zope3-dev] What do we want to bring from CVS to Subversion

2004-04-26 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Mon, 2004-04-26 at 15:23, Jim Fulton wrote: 2. Convert the mainline history, but leave off the branches. Would this mean we'd lose the log messages too? If so -1 because often merge messages aren't very helpful. merged foo-bar-branch to head would suck if you couldn't at least see the log

[Zope-dev] Re: [Zope3-dev] What do we want to bring from CVS to Subversion

2004-04-26 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Mon, 2004-04-26 at 15:42, Jim Fulton wrote: The reason that I hate merge messages like this is that I find it very difficult to find the branch checkin messages in thye log. It's possible, but so difficult that I generally would rather not bother. I agree, but history is history, so we

[Zope-dev] RE: [ZODB-Dev] Subversion repository layout

2004-04-26 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Mon, 2004-04-26 at 15:48, Tim Peters wrote: [Jim] I read some subversion docs over the weekend, and so am sufficiently prepared to live with the oddities of a standard subversion layout. I think that if you make a non-standard layout, then everyone coming to, or going from, Zope from/to

Re: [Zope3-dev] Re: [Zope-dev] zLOG is dead

2004-04-20 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Tue, 2004-04-20 at 10:01, Chris Withers wrote: This discussion smells like that string should be computed from introspection. Why can't it be computed from introspecting whatever code called the log method? You probably could do it via sys._getframe(). I'm not sure you should though. ;)

[Zope-dev] Re: [Zope3-dev] Re: Proposal: Rename zope package

2004-04-20 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Tue, 2004-04-20 at 15:46, Fred Drake wrote: On Tuesday 20 April 2004 12:08 pm, Jim Fulton wrote: What do people think about alternative 4? +1 Okay, add me to the chorus: +1 -Barry ___ Zope-Dev maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Zope3-dev] Re: [Zope-dev] Re: More arguments for z (was Re: Zope and zope)

2004-04-15 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Thu, 2004-04-15 at 09:25, Jim Fulton wrote: From the zope package README.txt: Zope Project Packages The zope package is a pure namespace package holding packages developed as part of the Zope 3 project. Generally, the immediate subpackages of the zope package should be

Re: [Zope3-dev] Re: [Zope-dev] Re: More arguments for z (was Re: Zope and zope)

2004-04-15 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Thu, 2004-04-15 at 10:23, Jim Fulton wrote: Each separately distributed package will have a DEPENDENCIES.cfg that is created by hand and that *constrains* dependencies on other packages. It makes explicit the intended dependencies. Dependencies not listed here are bugs. Adding depenencies

Re: [Zope3-dev] Re: [Zope-dev] Re: More arguments for z (was Re: Zope and zope)

2004-04-15 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Thu, 2004-04-15 at 11:39, Casey Duncan wrote: Additionally (and Jim and I have discussed this amongst ourselves) I feel strongly that the dependancies should be enforced by tests. Good point. The dependancy tests might need to be separate from unittests because they would probably

[Zope-dev] Re: [Zope3-dev] Re: Zope and zope

2004-04-14 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Wed, 2004-04-14 at 11:18, Stephan Richter wrote: Because in general I don't like version numbers in the path. I also think that zope is the only name that is 100% right on. Everything else is a compromise I would try to avoid. We will be sorry about it later, when many more people run

[Zope-dev] Re: [Zope3-dev] ZConfig: a wish list

2003-12-30 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Tue, 2003-12-30 at 13:48, Fred L. Drake, Jr. wrote: My usual response has been that it can already be done reasonably using something like: %define topdir /some/path/to/the/top/of/my/tree %define logdir $topdir/log some-logfile $logdir/interesting.log

[Zope-dev] Re: [Zope3-dev] ZConfig: Section type datatype inheritance

2003-12-29 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Mon, 2003-12-29 at 00:12, Fred L. Drake, Jr. wrote: I'm going to describe each issue in a separate email, including why I've changed my mind about them and what the consequences are for ZConfig users. Please respond to these messages if you think the proposed changes will have a negative

[Zope-dev] Re: [Zope3-dev] ZConfig: Keytype and section type extension

2003-12-29 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Mon, 2003-12-29 at 00:28, Fred L. Drake, Jr. wrote: ZConfig currently requires that derived section types not specify a keytype attribute, used to change the interpretation of the keys. The intent is to ensure that keys defined in the base section type will still be recognized and

[Zope-dev] Re: [Zope3-dev] ZConfig: Keytype and section type extension

2003-12-29 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Mon, 2003-12-29 at 12:52, Fred L. Drake, Jr. wrote: Changing the keytype allows different interpretations for keys. The only thing required of keys at the lowest level of the parser is that keys do not contain spaces. The basic-key datatype is used to create a case-insensitive handling

[Zope-dev] Re: [Zope3-dev] ZConfig: a wish list

2003-12-29 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Mon, 2003-12-29 at 15:07, Fred L. Drake, Jr. wrote: - $ substitutions in defaults Often, my defaults for keys can be expressed in terms of $ substitutions that are more general for my system. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be any way to make this work. ZConfig