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

2003-12-30 Thread Fred L. Drake, Jr.
Barry Warsaw writes: I suppose that model precludes even access to %define variables after parsing. That's right. If you really want to control the structure of the pat specifications, you need to deal with it explicitly; create a setting to control the base directory, and then use

[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: a wish list

2003-12-29 Thread Fred L. Drake, Jr.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Since the wiki Fred created on zope.org doesn't (or didn't) seem to work, I'll post my wish list here. Good strategy. ;-) The wiki definately didn't work, and no one seems to know why. Feel free to tell me why I don't really want what I think I want. :) Rest

[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