Jeff Shell wrote:
Is there any good pattern for dealing with this?
At ZC we use a system called, simply, "the buildout".
(We've nominally open sourced it by placing it in the sandbox
svn+ssh://svn.zope.org/repos/main/Sandbox/zc/buildout/trunk. I say
"nominally" because there wasn't much external interest at the time, and
haven't updated the sandbox to the current version in a while.)
The buildout handles things like downloading source and binaries,
compiling, making Zope instances, building config files, writing ctl
scripts, installing cron jobs, and lots more. It happens to use
ConfigParser-style files. We collect all of the system-level config
info in those files, and have separate files for "dev", "stage", and
"prod" environments.
Long story short: It's an interesting problem space, but, as you've
noticed, ZCML (alone) doesn't apply to this kind of "whole system"
configuration.
--
Benji York
Senior Software Engineer
Zope Corporation
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