Re: [Zope] Same product in multiple instances automatically?

2005-09-15 Thread Chris Withers
Kirk Strauser wrote: OH! I see what you mean. $ZOPE is defined in $INSTANCE/etc/zope.conf. In my case, it's set to /usr/local/www/Zope, and there's a Products directory inside it. FreeBSD installs new products to that directory. I hadn't noticed that there was also a /usr/local/www/Zope/

Re: [Zope] Same product in multiple instances automatically?

2005-09-15 Thread Chris Withers
Paul Winkler wrote: JCC wrote: If you want your instances to use Products from some other directory, name it here. The one possible "gotcha", dating back to the Zope 2.6.x / CMF 1.3.x days, is that CMF (and Plone) would not work properly if installed somewhere other than $INSTANCE_HOME/Produ

Re: [Zope] Same product in multiple instances automatically?

2005-09-09 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Friday 09 September 2005 15:59, J Cameron Cooper wrote: > Thus was created the instance/software distinction. Everything needed to > run Zope goes into the SOFTWARE_HOME; everything that defines a specific > distinct instance goes into INSTANCE_HOME (3rd party Products, Data.fs, > config files,

Re: [Zope] Same product in multiple instances automatically?

2005-09-09 Thread J Cameron Cooper
Kirk Strauser wrote: On Friday 09 September 2005 15:37, J Cameron Cooper wrote: Anything in $SOFTWARE_HOME/lib/python/Products is available in any instances that use that SOFTWARE_HOME. You can see this quite easily by looking at the /Control_Panel/Products of an instance with nothing in its $

Re: [Zope] Same product in multiple instances automatically?

2005-09-09 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Friday 09 September 2005 15:37, J Cameron Cooper wrote: > Anything in $SOFTWARE_HOME/lib/python/Products is available in any > instances that use that SOFTWARE_HOME. You can see this quite easily by > looking at the /Control_Panel/Products of an instance with nothing in > its $INSTANCE_HOME/Pro

Re: [Zope] Same product in multiple instances automatically?

2005-09-09 Thread Paul Winkler
> On Friday 09 September 2005 13:56, J Cameron Cooper wrote: > >> I don't know why, either. That simply says that there is a default >> Products directory ($SOFTWARE_HOME/lib/python/Products), you can't get >> rid of it, and you shouldn't try to configure it here. > > The problem I'm having, though

Re: [Zope] Same product in multiple instances automatically?

2005-09-09 Thread J Cameron Cooper
Kirk Strauser wrote: On Friday 09 September 2005 13:56, J Cameron Cooper wrote: I don't know why, either. That simply says that there is a default Products directory ($SOFTWARE_HOME/lib/python/Products), you can't get rid of it, and you shouldn't try to configure it here. The problem I'm havi

Re: [Zope] Same product in multiple instances automatically?

2005-09-09 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Friday 09 September 2005 13:56, J Cameron Cooper wrote: > I don't know why, either. That simply says that there is a default > Products directory ($SOFTWARE_HOME/lib/python/Products), you can't get > rid of it, and you shouldn't try to configure it here. The problem I'm having, though, is that

Re: [Zope] Same product in multiple instances automatically?

2005-09-09 Thread Paul Winkler
JCC wrote: > If you want your instances to use Products from some other directory, > name it here. The one possible "gotcha", dating back to the Zope 2.6.x / CMF 1.3.x days, is that CMF (and Plone) would not work properly if installed somewhere other than $INSTANCE_HOME/Products. The skins directo

Re: [Zope] Same product in multiple instances automatically?

2005-09-09 Thread J Cameron Cooper
Kirk Strauser wrote: On Friday 09 September 2005 10:25, Paul Winkler wrote: To be honest, I'd expect something a little different, namely that each instance would automatically pull in all the products in the site installation (like [1] and [2] above), but that doesn't seem to be the case. Is

Re: [Zope] Same product in multiple instances automatically?

2005-09-09 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Friday 09 September 2005 10:25, Paul Winkler wrote: > > To be honest, I'd expect something a little different, namely that each > > instance would automatically pull in all the products in the site > > installation (like [1] and [2] above), but that doesn't seem to be the > > case. Is that a co

Re: [Zope] Same product in multiple instances automatically?

2005-09-09 Thread Paul Winkler
> To be honest, I'd expect something a little different, namely that each > instance would automatically pull in all the products in the site > installation (like [1] and [2] above), but that doesn't seem to be the > case. Is that a configuration issue, by design, or by accident? It's a configura