zope-zwiki broken after warty->hoary dist-upgrade

[Tres Seaver]

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Patrick Ohnewein wrote:

> Klaus Alexander Seistrup schrieb:
> 
>> A while ago the ExternalEditor stopped working here, although it still
>> seemed to be installed (according to the ZMI), and today ZWiki didn't
>> appear in ZMI after installing it with APT.  It seems Zope cannot see
>> the products.
>>
>> I solved the problem like so:
>>
>> $ su -
>> # cd /usr/lib/zope/lib/python/Products
>> # ln -s /usr/share/zope/Products/ExternalEditor
>> # ln -s /usr/share/zope/Products/ZWiki
>> # ^D
>> $
>> and then restart Zope.   It might help you, too...
> 
> 
> Thank you very much. It makes zwiki work again!
> 
> There remain 2 problems:
> 
> 1) The product list shows all products I had installed in the past. Even
> if on my system there is just zwiki.

The ZODB maintains a small persistent stub recording data (the help
system registration, mostly) for any project registered in the past
("persistence means always having to say you're sorry").  You can safely
delete all the product entries in the Control Panel and restart Zope --
the currently-installed products will re-register themselves.

> 2) I wasn't able to install just zwiki and zope (2.6). apt always
> installs zope2.7. Do I need it, should I use 2.7 instead of 2.6? If I
> just install 2.7 no server will be listening.

I don't know anything about how Debian / Ubuntu packaged Zope 2.6, but
there are a number of critical fixes in the 2.7 line which were never
backported in the upstream to the 2.6 line:  the last release on that
line was more than a year ago.

Given the choice, I would figure out how to make 2.7 work.  THe 2.7 line
is likely to be the "old stable" version in the near future (I expect to
see a 2.8 beta release some time in April, with a final sometime in May).

Tres.
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