[Zope-CMF] Portal Topics fun and games

Robert Rottermann robert@rocad.ch
Tue, 29 May 2001 21:09:36 +0200


Hi Tres,
replacing  files in cmftopics/skins/topic/*.py helps.
topic_addCriterion.py for sure but it is not enough.

Robert
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tres Seaver" <tseaver@palladion.com>
To: "Robert Rottermann" <robert@rocad.ch>
Cc: "Chris Withers" <chrisw@nipltd.com>; <zope-cmf@zope.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2001 5:40 PM
Subject: Re: [Zope-CMF] Portal Topics fun and games


> 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
>