[Zope-dev] Re: zopeproject and eggs lead to wrong zopeversion

[Philipp von Weitershausen]

Christophe Combelles wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> An full-egg zope 3.4 buildout installed with zopeproject tells me the zope
> version is 3.3.1 (in /++etc++process/):
> 
> - I have a fully eggified zope 3.4 installed with zopeproject.
> - I also have a zope 3.3.1 installed on the system python.
> 
> When I start the 3.4 full-egg instance, I've discovered that
> zope.app.applicationcontrol.zopeversion tries to reach zope/app/version.txt
> to determine the major zope version.
> 
> Since version.txt does not seem to be included in any egg, it fallbacks 
> to the system zope installed.

"system zope"? It seems like you have a globally available Zope 
installation. This will obviously confuse any *local* sandbox, such as 
the one created with zopeproject. Make sure you don't have any Zope 
libraries on your standard PYTHONPATH.