[Zope] Version info from the command line?

[Russell Hires]

Hello everyone,

I have a question: is there a way to determine the version of zope that is 
being run from the command line? The reason I want to know this is because I 
have a "brilliant" idea (just don't count on me to implement it ;-) : I see 
all of these Products that people are making, and they all say "Just untar 
this to your products directory." I'd like to have a more elegant solution, 
like a python script that does this for you: it finds out what Zope you're 
running, where the Products directory is and puts it in there, restarts 
zope...

I can never remember the directory structure of my install, and I hate having 
to struggle with finding the Products directory and fiddling around with tar 
(I know, just being lazy, but what can I say?). I also think it would be 
better for people who don't want to fool around with all of these steps to 
install a product...they just type "install_zproduct <product-name>" or 
something (because this command would come with zope) and it's gunzipped, 
untarred, moved to the correct directory, and zope is restarted (if 
necessary)...voila! Your product is installed!

Thanks for the info.

Russell