Re: [Zope] "No module named rotor"

2006-03-14 Thread Jeff Gentry
Hi Dennis ... > both contain references. If you do not need cross Zope compatibility you > should be able to safely remove the calls to rotor objects. I was just looking at that. By cross Zope compatibility do you mean ability to give the tarball to other people for installation in their Zo

Re: [Zope] "No module named rotor"

2006-03-14 Thread Dennis Allison
Jeff, Looks like you've happened on a real bug. rotor() is used when building and loading pyp files but is no longer provided with Python. You should file a bug report. lib/python/App/Extensions.py lib/python/App/Product.py both contain references. If you do not need cross Zope compatibili

Re: [Zope] "No module named rotor"

2006-03-14 Thread Jeff Gentry
On Tue, 14 Mar 2006, Jeff Gentry wrote: > On Tue, 14 Mar 2006, Andreas Jung wrote: > > Scary enough, but obviously this is dead code...otherwise Zope would > > not work. > Okay ... I will try upgrading Zope (which I've been meaning to do > anyways) and see if that changes things. So I upgraded to

Re: [Zope] "No module named rotor"

2006-03-14 Thread Lennart Regebro
On 3/14/06, Jeff Gentry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ah ... In the 2.7 version of the zope book I saw this: 'Zope 2.7 requires > Python 2.3.2 or later' and assumed that the 'or later' was inclusive of > later Python versions beyond 2.3.x. Which would have been impossible since they didn't exist th

Re: [Zope] "No module named rotor"

2006-03-14 Thread Jeff Gentry
On Tue, 14 Mar 2006, Andreas Jung wrote: > Scary enough, but obviously this is dead code...otherwise Zope would > not work. Okay ... I will try upgrading Zope (which I've been meaning to do anyways) and see if that changes things. Thanks -J ___ Zope ma

Re: [Zope] "No module named rotor"

2006-03-14 Thread Andreas Jung
--On 14. März 2006 14:43:52 -0500 Jeff Gentry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Rotor was removed form python for a variety of reasons (see the mailing list archives) but one of them was that it's a terrible way to do any sort of encryption. There are numberous python extensions that do encryption

Re: [Zope] "No module named rotor"

2006-03-14 Thread Jeff Gentry
> Rotor was removed form python for a variety of reasons (see the > mailing list archives) but one of them was that it's a terrible way to > do any sort of encryption. There are numberous python extensions that > do encryption and decryption which could be incorporated into your > product. Altern

Re: [Zope] "No module named rotor"

2006-03-14 Thread Jeff Gentry
> Zope does not use the rotor module and I don't think that it used the rotor > module in the past. Extensions.py and Product.py both have 'import rotor' calls in Zope 2.7.3-0, from Zope-2.7.3-0/lib/python/App in my installation. ___ Zope maillist - Z

Re: [Zope] "No module named rotor"

2006-03-14 Thread Dennis Allison
Rotor was removed form python for a variety of reasons (see the mailing list archives) but one of them was that it's a terrible way to do any sort of encryption. There are numberous python extensions that do encryption and decryption which could be incorporated into your product. Alternative

Re: [Zope] "No module named rotor"

2006-03-14 Thread Andreas Jung
--On 14. März 2006 14:34:27 -0500 Jeff Gentry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Fix the related code and replace the rotor with something similar (never seen any code that uses enigma-style encryption for _serious_ reasons). It is unclear to me why they were using that in the first place. I'm no

Re: [Zope] "No module named rotor"

2006-03-14 Thread Jeff Gentry
> Fix the related code and replace the rotor with something similar (never > seen any code that uses enigma-style encryption for _serious_ reasons). It is unclear to me why they were using that in the first place. I'm not sure which you mean by 'the related code', you mean the internal Zope code

Re: [Zope] "No module named rotor"

2006-03-14 Thread Andreas Jung
--On 14. März 2006 14:12:53 -0500 Jeff Gentry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: My question is what is the appropriate workaround here? Fix the related code and replace the rotor with something similar (never seen any code that uses enigma-style encryption for _serious_ reasons). Is this cons