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["Francis J. Lacoste" <francis.lacoste@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On October 19, 2010, Robert Collins wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 8:03 AM, Francis J. Lacoste
> 
> <francis.lacoste@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On October 17, 2010, Robert Collins wrote:
> >> it would be nice if I knew why we had the -appserver variation though,
> >> I don't understand why its necessary or beneficial.
> > 
> > This configuration is used for integration tests that tests through the
> > appserver for talking over a socket.
> 
> It also adds in some zcml overrides like smtpMailer that we'll need to
> sort out some mechanism for. Ideally allocate-and-report; does zope
> handle dynamic port allocation?
> 
> So we will need a custom entry point, which in this case will be
> script-test.zcml (unless we can make smtpMailer always run on a
> dynamic port, which is probably preferrable).
> 

I really doubt it has. Best bet is to select one and write it in the .conf 
file.

A long time ago, when we introduced the lazr.config scheme, we had plans to 
actully bootstrap Zope from that configuration (and get rid of the ZConfig-
based schema). Maybe it would be time to complete that work?


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Francis J. Lacoste
francis.lacoste@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

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