I'm considering upgrading Python, Zope, CMF and Plone to the most recent versions. How do I go about preserving any work I have already done in my current environment? -- John
From: "John Poltorak" <jp@warpix.org>
I'm considering upgrading Python, Zope, CMF and Plone to the most recent versions.
How do I go about preserving any work I have already done in my current environment?
Yhe best upgrade procedure is normally to make a new install with all the latest versions, copy in the Data.fs and go from there. Zope and CMF usually requires no extra steps (unless it's VERY old version). I don't know about Plone, but there should be documentation about that.
On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 02:14:57PM +0100, Lennart Regebro wrote:
From: "John Poltorak" <jp@warpix.org>
I'm considering upgrading Python, Zope, CMF and Plone to the most recent versions.
How do I go about preserving any work I have already done in my current environment?
Yhe best upgrade procedure is normally to make a new install with all the latest versions, copy in the Data.fs and go from there. Zope and CMF usually requires no extra steps (unless it's VERY old version). I don't know about Plone, but there should be documentation about that.
I looked into upgrading yesterday and it looks like a nightmare because the latest Python RPM has so many prerequisites which are not available, and I can't build it from source because I don't have c++ installed and have no idea about what is involved in installing it. -- John
From: "John Poltorak" <jp@warpix.org>
I looked into upgrading yesterday and it looks like a nightmare because the latest Python RPM has so many prerequisites which are not available,
I find that it's almost always easier and faster to download both Python and Zope fom source and compile it, than to use precompiled package.
and I can't build it from source because I don't have c++ installed and have no idea about what is involved in installing it.
You are running on a Linux system that doesn't have gcc? Wow. Yeah, that would cause problems. The prerequisites to building Zope is only gcc (or MSVC on Windows) and Python 2.3.3, as far as I know. What the prerequisites for Python 2.3.3 is I don't know, I have always been able to just compile it on a clean Linux system with gcc, so it shouldn't be that much problems.
John Poltorak wrote at 2004-2-17 10:12 +0000:
... I looked into upgrading yesterday and it looks like a nightmare because the latest Python RPM has so many prerequisites which are not available, and I can't build it from source because I don't have c++ installed and have no idea about what is involved in installing it.
You do not need C++ for Python or Zope. Python uses the C++ linker when it is there (to facilitate the integration of C++ implemented extension modules) but is happy when C++ is not installed. -- Dieter
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