Don’t get me wrong - ‘easy_install’ (and ‘zc.buildout’) is the way to go. But a weak setup can bite you quite a bit sometimes.
A few days ago i had a typical issue - installing ‘zope.schema’ to check, if and how it could be used standalone.
d2m@zaphod:~$ sudo easy_install –find-links \
http://download.zope.org/distribution zope.schema
This installed ok, but immediately broke my zope3 checkout.
Now ‘bin/zopectl […]
Archive for October, 2006
Problem: Sometimes you want to be sure your Zope3 application is working independent of any objects already stored in the ZODB.
Solution: You replace the ZODB on filesystem with a mapping storage entirely in RAM.
In your ‘zope.conf‘ file replace
<zodb>
<filestorage>
path Data.fs
</filestorage>
</zodb>
with
<zodb>
<mappingstorage>
name AnyNameOrId
</mappingstorage>
</zodb>
Startup Zope3 as usual, add and remove some objects.
Watch the transaction log: it is empty, nothing […]
