[Zope] ANNOUNCE: FAQ Tool sample Zope app.

[Martijn Pieters]

At 13:21 01/03/99 , Brad Clements wrote:
>I don't get a traceback because I didn't "fiddle", the FAQ item shows up 
>in the control panel, but is not in the Add drop-down.
>
>I'm running 1.10.2 on NT with ZServer.

The 'fiddling' involves disbling the exception handling of the product
initialisation. Normally, a 'Levered' product, that has been distributed, has a
product.dat file. This file contains the compressed pickled reprensentation of
the product, which basicly consists of other Zope objects, with a Principia
Factory.

When Zope can't uncompress and depickle the product.dat file, you only get to
see that the Product is installed, but it doesn't contain anything (which a
Levered Product actually should), and nothing else happens or can happen. If
you want to know more on how to use the 'Lever', read up at
http://www.zope.org/Documentation/Guides/ZMG/ZMG-HTML/ZMG.html#pgfId-986684
(Zope Manager's Guide, Creating Zoipe Products).

When you disable the exception handling in initializeProduct in Product.py, and
restart Zope, it will exit with the traceback I reported.

I have reported this to DC with the Collector, but I used Win98. You are using
WinNT, which is interesting.. Something goes wrong with decompressing the
product.dat file on win32 platforms (Amos says he tested it succesfully on
Linux).

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