+1 -- I'm afraid my answer assumed a vanilla Zope/Plone sight. On Fri, 13 Apr 2007, Paul Winkler wrote:
On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 12:36:13PM -0500, s wrote:
I just took over a website that was done in Zope/Plone. The person formerly responsible for it was not helpful to the client or me in the transition process. Basically he emailed a ZEXP file to me, told me it contains everything I need, and washed his hands of the whole project.
The .zexp cannot contain everything you need. It will contain all the data (assuming he didn't miss anything), but that data can only be loaded if you have a zope system running with all the correct third-party software installed. You should insist on being provided with:
- Zope version
- Name and version number for every subdirectory of $INSTANCE_HOME/Products/ (including, of course, Plone) ... usually each subdirectory will have a file named version.txt
- Name and version number for every add-on Python package installed to the system, if any.
Without this information, you will be unable to load the .zexp.
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