incunabulum wrote:
Hi there,
with Plone 3 being out of the door for quite a while I am thinking about
upgrading some old (quite simple) products from the Plone 2.0 / 2.1 days...
Generic Setup vs. QuickInstaller, ZopeSkel, Viewlets etc. are a bunch of
issues I may need to look into.
So, now I am looking for pointers about the best way to do this. What would
you suggest? Just patch the old product to get it working ? Or restart from
scratch and develop some migration script? Is there some DIY-Product script
available?
For realestatebroker (old plone 2.0 product, also never updated for 2.1
or 2.5), I've chosen to make a fully new product. The archetypes fields
and so will be the same, but it'll be a pure 3.0 lib/python product now
with genericsetup and so.
Why? A chance to clean up the product and make sure 3.5 will be real
easy to support. Fixing up some import statements and moving parts of
install.py to genericsetup is also a possibility, but to me the
endresult will probably still feel messy compared to modern code.
Drawback: you'll need migration. ATCT has/had handy migration code,
though I can't find it right away.
I'll probably blog about the experience, you'll see it on
planet.plone.org when I do :-)
Reinout
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