[Zope3-Users] Zope3.3.0 with buildout

[Matthias Lehmann]

Hi All,

in the company, I am working for, we have a product based on Zope3.3.0. The
time has come, where we finally think about upgrading to use buildout and
eventually newer versions of Zope3.

Because we do not want to take multiple steps at once, we would like to - as a
first step - simple migrate the application to use buildout but keep Zope3
version 3.3.0. If that goes well, we intend to switch to newer Zope3 versions.

I fiddled some with buildout and the zc.zope3recipes, but without much success,
so far. So I am wondering - does buildout work with Zope3 versions below 3.4
at all?

I would be thankful to hear, if anybody was successful with this - maybe I am
just missing something. Or if it's something that can't be done (at least in a
sensible way), I know I don't need to spend more time trying.

Best Regards,

Mat

[Stephan Richter]

Post by Matthias Lehmann
I fiddled some with buildout and the zc.zope3recipes, but without much
success, so far. So I am wondering - does buildout work with Zope3
versions below 3.4 at all?

No. Unfortunately, Zope 3.4 was the first buildout based release.

Regards,
Stephan

[Christian Theune]

Hi,

Post by Matthias Lehmann
Hi All,
in the company, I am working for, we have a product based on Zope3.3.0. The
time has come, where we finally think about upgrading to use buildout and
eventually newer versions of Zope3.
Because we do not want to take multiple steps at once, we would like to - as a
first step - simple migrate the application to use buildout but keep Zope3
version 3.3.0. If that goes well, we intend to switch to newer Zope3 versions.
I fiddled some with buildout and the zc.zope3recipes, but without much success,
so far. So I am wondering - does buildout work with Zope3 versions below 3.4
at all?
I would be thankful to hear, if anybody was successful with this - maybe I am
just missing something. Or if it's something that can't be done (at least in a
sensible way), I know I don't need to spend more time trying.

You can. Please see the documentation of these recipes:

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/zc.zope3recipes/0.11.0#building-zope-3-applications-from-zope-3-checkouts-tarballs
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/zc.recipe.zope3checkout/1.2

Christian

[Matthias Lehmann]

Post by Christian Theune
Hi,

Post by Matthias Lehmann
Hi All,
in the company, I am working for, we have a product based on Zope3.3.0.
The time has come, where we finally think about upgrading to use
buildout and eventually newer versions of Zope3.
Because we do not want to take multiple steps at once, we would like to -
as a first step - simple migrate the application to use buildout but
keep Zope3 version 3.3.0. If that goes well, we intend to switch to
newer Zope3 versions.
I fiddled some with buildout and the zc.zope3recipes, but without much
success, so far. So I am wondering - does buildout work with Zope3
versions below 3.4 at all?
I would be thankful to hear, if anybody was successful with this - maybe
I am just missing something. Or if it's something that can't be done (at
least in a sensible way), I know I don't need to spend more time trying.

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/zc.zope3recipes/0.11.0#building-zope-3-applicat
ions-from-zope-3-checkouts-tarballs
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/zc.recipe.zope3checkout/1.2

Thanks for your answer.
I tried zc.zope3recipies:app and it does create the app and the instance etc.,
but I don't know how to handle the ZCML configuration. In a traditional Zop3.3
tarball, I had to use bin/mkzopeinstance which gave me an etc directory with a
functional site.zcml. The site.zcml created by zc.zope3recipies does not
include all that boilerplate.

So do I have to go through all the ZCML stuff from the etc-dir of my old
zope3.3 tarball-install and add relevant ZCML to the new buildout site.zcml,
or is there some automatic way? I know, that in zope3.4, there is the
zope.app.zcmlfiles packages, which containes most of this boilerplate - but
what about zope3.3?

Thanks for your advice.

Best regards,

Mat