[Zope] making product from the filesystem

[Sylvain Thénault]

On Monday 13 May à 12:59, John Hunter wrote:
> >>>>> "Sylvain" == Sylvain Th?nault <thenault@nerim.net> writes:
> 
>     Sylvain> hello, I'm attempting to make my first Zope product but I
>     Sylvain> have some problems to install it to test it
>     Sylvain> behavior. I've just put my code under the
>     Sylvain> /usr/lib/zope/lib/python/Products directory, but Zope
>     Sylvain> doesn't load my product. Is there anything else to do ?
>     Sylvain> (there is a __init__.py which initialize the product, I
>     Sylvain> took MailHost as example to construct my product)
> 
> This is the right approach -- perhaps there is a bug in your code
> somewhere?  Without seeing your code, it's hard to know where the
> problem is.  Start with a minimal product, see below) and try to
> import that.  You can grow from there.
> 
>     Sylvain> In a more general way, I don't understand how to
>     Sylvain> reinstall a product which has been removed from the Zope
>     Sylvain> www control panel... Does the products live in the ZODB ?
>     Sylvain> Is there any problems with installing a product in Zope
>     Sylvain> for testing (code may change directly in the filesystem)
>     Sylvain> ?
> 
> If you restart Zope, the product should reappear, as far as I know.
> As for working with test code, if you put a file called refresh.txt in
> your product dir, you can reload your product from the manager
> interface without restarting zope.
> 
>     Sylvain> I didn't found consistent information about how to
>     Sylvain> construct Zope products from the SF instead of from the
>     Sylvain> www interface, and I'ld be able to read a document which
>     Sylvain> answer to all those questions :-)
> 
> 3 very helpful resources for this, the maxm minimal product guides:
> 
>   http://www.zope.org/Members/maxm/HowTo/minimal_01
>   http://www.zope.org/Members/maxm/HowTo/minimal_02
> 
> and Chapter 4 of the Zope Developer's guide:
> 
>   http://www.zope.org/Documentation/ZDG
> 
> You may also find the Boring Product Guide helpful
> 
> http://www.zope.org/Members/gtk/Boring/HowTo-Boring
> 
> Good luck,
> John Hunter

thanks for your answer and for the links. Actually my product is now loaded
by Zope. It's appeared just after I had installed another product
(ZRoundup). Strange...

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Sylvain Thénault