On Apr 3, 2009, at 7:32 AM, Chris Withers wrote:

Hi All,

I've been working on getting Zope 2.12 instances to build from a simple buildout without any funky recipes.

This morning I tried this at the start:

[buildout] parts = zeoinstance extends = http://svn.zope.org/*checkout*/Zope/tags/2.12.0a1/versions-zope2.cfg

...expecting buildout to barf 'cos it couldn't find the versions- zope3.cfg that's referenced in versions-zope2.cfg.

However, buildout happily did the right thing and downloaded it from http://svn.zope.org/*checkout*/Zope/tags/2.12.0a1/versions-zope3.cfg

Is this documented, expected behaviour (if so, where

Yes. See the two sections starting with: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/zc.buildout#multiple-configuration-files

why?)

Why is this documented? Or why does this work? Documentation is good and the features are useful.

PS: If it is documented and expected, what would happen if I had my own versions-zope3.cfg in the same folder as my buildout.cfg? Which one would get picked?

Since it is documented, why not read the documentation and find out? Jim -- Jim Fulton Zope Corporation