[Zope] problem migrating ZClasses from Zope 2.6.1 to Zope 2.9.8

[Allen Schmidt Sr.]

No idea even where to start. I played with creating a 'boring' object a 
while back but I am pretty sure ours is a tad more complicated. All the 
parts of our site I work on are in SQL and was never involved in the 
ZClass News stuff. It just works...and continues to work...but is 
limiting us from upgrading.

So, where to start. Once we get some guidance, we could probably do it 
ourselves.  Anyone willing to a$$$ist? We don't have a budget for it but 
could scrape something together to get started. Even just to log in and 
look at what we have and say,
"Ah, you need to do this and this and this, then it will work."
I know not that simple, but that is what I am trying to find out.

Thanks

Allen


Jens Vagelpohl wrote:

> 
> On Mar 26, 2008, at 12:59 , Allen Schmidt Sr. wrote:
> 
>> That sounds so easy. We have one ZClass but it is the basis of  almost 
>> our entire newspaper website. The news ZClass was built in  2000 and 
>> put into production when we went live on Zope in Feb 2001  (just 
>> before the guys at Zope Corp said that ZClasss were bad). Over  7 full 
>> years of daily news as ZClass objects. We are in the same  boat as we 
>> want to move from 2.7.5 to a later version. We could  switch to SQL 
>> articles but then we would have to make sure all the  old URLs still 
>> functioned as our content is all over the search  engines...and 
>> convert everywhere there are tools to manage story  creation, 
>> importing, editing, etc. Yuck. We could just make the  cutover one day 
>> and just keep an instance running for the old stuff  and all new stuff 
>> runs from SQL.
> 
> 
> When you build a "real" Zope product to replace the ZClasses it is no  
> problem to make it behave like the old instances and put them in the  
> same place as the old instance so the URL remains the same. Switching  
> away from ZClasses does not mean you must change instance URLs etc.
> 
> jens