Re: [Boa Constr] running applications

[Yuppie <sc...@we...>]

Hi Riaan!

Riaan Booysen wrote:
> Does it just temporarily change the Python Path and Environment of 
> the debugged process?

You may select different settings for each project/file. Debugging a 
file, WingIDE uses temporarily these settings.

> Why would you need to have a different python path when you are 
> debugging than the one you use when running normally?

I don't need that either. That's just the way WingIDE does it. I'd like 
to use the same settings for debugging and running.

> It's not there because I have never needed this.
> Possibly Shane did not need it either.
> 
> Is it really that useful? 

Here's my use case:

I want to use the IDE for Zope product development. Running tests 
against different Zope versions, I need to change a lot of environment 
settings:
- pythonInterpreter
- Zope path
- environment variables like INSTANCE_HOME

To change these settings, I have to change
- pythonInterpreterPath in Preferences
- sys.path in my python script
- os.environ in my python script

But these settings don't belong in the code. They are different for 
different workstations and testing scenarios.

I'm dreaming of a feature that allows me working this way:
1. setting pythonInterpreter, paths, environment variables
2. run tests / debug using these settings
3. saving settings in a file like zope251.env
4. modifying my settings, run tests / debug again
5. saving settings in a file like zope260.env
6. working on my code
7. loading zope251.env
8. ...

But I don't have much experience in python product development. So 
perhaps I should do it in a totally different way?


Thanks again.  And thanks to Ris for his reply.

Yuppie