[Zope] Xron not compatible with Zope 2.5.1?

Dieter Maurer dieter@handshake.de
Thu, 19 Sep 2002 19:42:11 +0200


VanL writes:
 > I installed the Xron product, and I can't seem to use it with Zope 
 > 2.5.1.  Whenever I try to view a Xron DTML method, I get the following:
 > ...
 > The object at http://mig:8080/team/vanl/test has an empty or missing 
 > docstring.
 > Objects must have a docstring to be published.
What (type of object) is "team/vanl/test"?
Does it have a docstring?
 > ...
 > Has anyone seen this before?  Is there something that has superceded 
 > Xron that is currently maintained?
Usually, people suggest to use an external scheduler (e.g. CRON under Unix)
and either "ZPublisher.Client" or "XML-RPC" to fire actions in Zope.


Dieter