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

[TIm Terlegård]

On Nov 26, 2007, at 2:28 PM, Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:

> 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.

Wouldn't it make sense if zopeproject didn't include system python
in PYTHONPATH at all?

/Tim