Help! I need an old Debian package.
Zope on our main server was upgraded to the Zope 2.5.1 recently. When I restarted, everything was broken. I have fixed the main problem, but now the TransparentFolder product isn't working. I'm screwed without TransparentFolder. I *really* need to get that working. I suspect I need to downgrade to a 2.4.x Zope. Anyone know where there's a Debian package of it? Thank you! --kyler
Am 03.12.2002, 10:35 Uhr schrub Kyler Laird <Kyler@Zope.Lairds.com>:
I'm screwed without TransparentFolder. I *really* need to get that working.
I suspect I need to downgrade to a 2.4.x Zope. Anyone know where there's a Debian package of it?
The TransparentFolder-Patch does definitely work with 2.5.1 and even with 2.6. Perhaps you just have to apply the patch again (follow the instructions that come with TransparentFolder). Jo. -- Internetmanufaktur Jo Meder ---------------------- Berlin, Germany http://www.meder.de/ ------------------- fon: ++49-30-417 17 63 33 Kollwitzstr. 75 ------------------------ fax: ++49-30-417 17 63 45 10435 Berlin --------------------------- mob: ++49-170- 2 98 89 97 Public GnuPG-Key ---------- http://www.meder.de/keys/jo-pubkey.txt
On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 10:47:13AM +0100, Jo Meder wrote:
I'm screwed without TransparentFolder. I *really* need to get that working.
I don't think I can stress quite how awful it would have been for me to lose TransparentFolder. It would ruin a lot of people's weeks. I received this help after heading in to work to revive an old server that I hoped would have an old Zope package on it. ('course I couldn't recall the password...)
I suspect I need to downgrade to a 2.4.x Zope. Anyone know where there's a Debian package of it?
The TransparentFolder-Patch does definitely work with 2.5.1 and even with 2.6.
Wonderful! I needed to know that. I was warned that it could just stop working at any time, so I've been a little gun shy.
Perhaps you just have to apply the patch again (follow the instructions that come with TransparentFolder).
Of course! I recall now that there was something that had to be done. Now I see it. All better! Thank you!!! BTW, the problem was that I have a hacked up ImageTag_Hotfix from long ago. (It scales, rotates and extracts EXIF data from images.) For some reason it didn't return a zero value upon completing its initialization. That wasn't a problem until tonight. It took some sleuthing to figure out that it needed that. In doing so, I blew away the OFS directory (along with everything else) several times. I kept a copy of the Products directory, but I didn't think about needing to restore something in OFS. Lessons learned...if I'm going to delegate system admin. responsibilities to someone else, I need to make sure he's around when I feel like trying out something new. (I was hoping I could upgrade to the new ZWiki from 0.9.5 without it breaking all of my old pages. I've been trying out each version with my fingers crossed for awhile.) Also, *wow!* being able to get support from the other side of the world is sooooo nice at this hour. (It's 2AM here in California/5AM where the server is.) I continue to be amazed when I think of how users of proprietary software live. Thank you! Off to bed now... --kyler
Am 03.12.2002, 11:13 Uhr schrub Kyler Laird <Kyler@Lairds.com>:
I'm screwed without TransparentFolder. I *really* need to get that working.
I don't think I can stress quite how awful it would have been for me to lose TransparentFolder. It would ruin a lot of people's weeks. [...] I was warned that it could just stop working at any time, so I've been a little gun shy.
Same situation here. If TransparentFolders stopped working with any future Zope release we'd have to stick with the last version prior to that. I'd second TransparentFolder as a feature request for Zope. They are really useful to structure storage without complicating URLs if you know what you're doing. Of course you have to be careful wrt duplicate ids. Jo. -- Internetmanufaktur Jo Meder ---------------------- Berlin, Germany http://www.meder.de/ ------------------- fon: ++49-30-417 17 63 33 Kollwitzstr. 75 ------------------------ fax: ++49-30-417 17 63 45 10435 Berlin --------------------------- mob: ++49-170- 2 98 89 97 Public GnuPG-Key ---------- http://www.meder.de/keys/jo-pubkey.txt
On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 01:09:43AM +0100, Jo Meder wrote:
I'd second TransparentFolder as a feature request for Zope. They are really useful to structure storage without complicating URLs if you know what you're doing. Of course you have to be careful wrt duplicate ids.
As I recall, they cause horrible (processing) inefficiencies, so they are not likely to be adopted in the base product. The human efficiencies they bring (to us) are substantial. I've been assuming that I'm the only one using TFs, so it's nice to know someone else does. More people to share the load if we ever need to modify the product to handle a change in Zope! Now for my TF usage... It's become *very* common for me to create a Folder such as "proposals" and fill it with other Folders that represent proposals. Then I want tools that act on the proposals (like "PDF_compilation"). It's sooo clean for me to be able to drop a TF named "tools" into "proposals" and then simply call it like this. http://.../blah/proposals/2002001/PDF_compilation I do this all the time. It would be hard for me to go back to a non-TF world. --kyler
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