Comment 4 for bug 663620

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Robert Collins (lifeless) wrote : Re: [Bug 663620] Re: generate overrides writes to global state

On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 11:45 AM, Gary Poster <email address hidden> wrote:
> zcml can be read/included with globs, so an ephemeral file would work
> (if it is there, it is read; if not, no biggie, because it was to be
> found in a glob).  That's the best idea I have with the info I have so
> far. example: <include files="package-includes/*-meta.zcml" /> (from
> site.zcml)
>
> <includeOverrides file="test-*-meta.zcml" /> would be equivalent (or
> whatever glob pattern you want, wherever)
>
> If we were going to use environment variables we could have...any old
> part of the system look at that environment variable.  I'd do it outside
> of the zcml stuff if possible.

Me too, but this stuff is *already in* zcml, and I'm not sure how to
move it out of zcml.

ephemeral files are fine, but we need *unique ephemeral*, not
ephemeral-well-known.