Re: [Zope] Opening Old .zexp Files
On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 3:41 PM, Tres Seaver tsea...@palladion.com wrote: Depending on your needs, it might be advisable to outsource the problem to somebody in the community having experience with the particular products used by the old instance. I think I will; however, there's one that would probably be easy. I understand one of those zexp files is just a shell that holds a swf and an xml file. Would that be easy to parse, or outsource that too? TIA, Susan ___ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )
Re: [Zope] Opening Old .zexp Files
Susan Day wrote: I have inherited some very old *.zexp files that I can't open in a Zope instance. Apparently they were built on 2.10 or even older. The problem appears to be that there were all sorts of products packed into the Products folder that crash everything and I don't know which ones are needed. How do I begin to dig into this mess? I'd probably try grepping through the .zexp for 'Products.' to try and get an idea of what products it requires. That said, I'm surprised the .zexp import doesn't tell you what classes were missing... Chris -- Simplistix - Content Management, Batch Processing Python Consulting - http://www.simplistix.co.uk ___ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )
Re: [Zope] Opening Old .zexp Files
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Susan Day wrote: I have inherited some very old *.zexp files that I can't open in a Zope instance. Apparently they were built on 2.10 or even older. The problem appears to be that there were all sorts of products packed into the Products folder that crash everything and I don't know which ones are needed. How do I begin to dig into this mess? Note that the export / import support is specifically limited in scope: it is only designed to support moving content between instances with identical software configurations (including Zope version, add-on Products, etc.) It happens to work, sometimes, to import a .zexp from a slightly different configuration, but there are no guarantees. It sounds as though the .zexp files you are trying to import contain objects whose classes are defined in add-on products which you do not have installed. Debugging that problem is likely to be a trial-and-error process, identifying each product (preferrably with the same version as used in the original instance). Depending on your needs, it might be advisable to outsource the problem to somebody in the community having experience with the particular products used by the old instance. Tres. - -- === Tres Seaver +1 540-429-0999 tsea...@palladion.com Palladion Software Excellence by Designhttp://palladion.com -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkudPAYACgkQ+gerLs4ltQ6goQCeKHlmGLp8himNZVylsIoBtUVg Aa0An2RFpdU74JKz0/NgIvfWTXj+tMhj =2OCH -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )
