[Zope-CMF] Portal Topics fun and games

[Tres Seaver]

On Tue, 29 May 2001, Robert Rottermann wrote:

> Hi Chris,
> you are luckier than me. I had the same problem as you and got nearly nuts
> till I resolved it.
> 
> The problem is as I narrowed it down somehow related to the differences in
> CR/LF's between windoze and linux.
> If you get cmf-head by help of win-cvs IT WILL NOT WORK!
> The only way (that worked for me) was to get CMF-head to a linux box, and
> copy it to a my windox machine. Downloading it to the windoze machine and
> copying it to the linux box did not work.
> 
> To veryfy that this is the actual problem start zope from start.bat (I
> assume you are not on linux) with -D as a parameter.
> As soon as you access either a ZMI with a a CMF-Site (or create a new one if
> there is none) you will see tracebacks in the dos box from where you
> started.
> 
> OK what can you do if you have no Linux machine idling at your place?. If
> you want to, I can give you access to the CMF-Head on the linuxbox I use to
> downlod it from the Zope site. From there you can donload it by help of
> ftpmirror which is part of a normal Python installation.

Your diagnosis indicates a CVS misconfiguration;  some file is
marked as "binary" which should be "text".  Were you able to
identify which file it was?  (I think I remember it was one of
the PythonScript skin methods).

Tres.
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Tres Seaver                               tseaver@palladion.com