New mailing list for ZConfig users

[Fred L. Drake, Jr.]

I've created a new mailing list for users of the ZConfig configuration 
library.  (Yes, there was a request for such a beast!)  The mailing list is 
run using Mailman at Zope.org; the subscription page is available at:

    http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zconfig/

ZConfig is a configuration library intended for general use. It supports a 
hierarchical schema-driven configuration model that allows a schema to 
specify data conversion routines written in Python. ZConfig's model is very 
different from the model support by the ConfigParser module found in Python's 
standard library, and is more suitable to configuration-intensive 
applications.

ZConfig schema are written in an XML-based language and are able to "import" 
schema components provided by Python packages. Since components are able to 
bind to conversion functions provided by Python code in the package (or 
elsewhere), configuration objects can be arbitrarily complex, with values 
that have been verified against arbitrary constraints. This makes it easy for 
applications to separate configuration support from configuration loading 
even with configuration data being defined and consumed by a wide range of 
separate packages.

The current version of ZConfig is version 2.2.  More information about ZConfig 
can be found at the project page:

    http://www.zope.org/Members/fdrake/zconfig/

or in the wiki:

    http://dev.zope.org/Zope3/ZConfig

ZConfig is covered by the Zope Public License, version 2.0. See the file 
LICENSE.txt in the distribution for the full license text.


  -Fred

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Fred L. Drake, Jr.  <fdrake at acm.org>
PythonLabs at Zope Corporation