On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 07:11:13PM +0200, Andreas Wandel wrote:
I guess, how to install the ZShell product into my Zope server.
ZShell requires the 'Distutils' package to be installed as an addon to python. But the Distutils don't compile in the Zope/python bundle because of some missing files ('config' dir below /var/lib/zope/lib/python).
Is there anyone out there, who can give me an 'bindist' of 'Distutils' which will work in the precompiled Zope 2.3.2 package?
The problem is not in ZShell, it's in the jaxml module which is needed by ZShell. The jaxml installation procedure uses the new Distutils standard Python module for installation. Unfortunately Distutils is not part of Python 1.5.2 but is only available as an add-on. Python 1.5.2 is probably the version which is embedded in your Zope version, since newer version are still officially unsupported until Zope 2.4 is out The simple solution is just to copy the jaxml.py file to the Zope embedded Python site-packages directory on your hard disk, if it exists, or anywhere else in your $PYTHONPATH Then copy the zshell.py file to your zope's $INSTANCE_HOME/Extensions directory on your hard disk, add this external method from the Zope's management interface, click on its "Test" tab, that's it ! I've never installed a precompiled version of Zope, so I hope I didn't made too much mistakes, however just copy the two python files where they need to be copied, and this should work fine. bye, Jerome Alet Download ZShell from: http://cortex.unice.fr/~jerome/zshell/