[Zope] Same product in multiple instances automatically?

[J Cameron Cooper]

Kirk Strauser wrote:
> On Friday 09 September 2005 10:25, Paul Winkler wrote:
> 
>>>To be honest, I'd expect something a little different, namely that each
>>>instance would automatically pull in all the products in the site
>>>installation (like [1] and [2] above), but that doesn't seem to be the
>>>case.  Is that a configuration issue, by design, or by accident?
>>
>>It's a configuration issue.  Check out the "products" directive
>>in zope.conf.
> 
> 
> The one that says:
> 
>     "The master Products directory exists in Zope's software home, and
>      cannot be removed from the products path (and should not be added to it
>      here)."
> 
> ?  That seemed to me that I shouldn't be adding /usr/local/www/Zope/Products 
> to the search path, although I'm unsure of the reasons.

I don't know why, either. That simply says that there is a default 
Products directory ($SOFTWARE_HOME/lib/python/Products), you can't get 
rid of it, and you shouldn't try to configure it here. The more 
interesting part is::

    Name of a directory that contains additional Product packages.  This
    directive may be used as many times as needed to add additional
    collections of products.  Each directory identified will be
    added to the __path__ of the Products package.

If you want your instances to use Products from some other directory, 
name it here.

		--jcc
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