[Zope] DirectoryStorage product - zope won't start

[Dieter Maurer]

Thomas Bennett wrote at 2008-9-9 13:12 -0400:
>using 
>python 2.4.5
>Zope 2.11.1-final
>DirectoryStorage 1.1.19
>
>
>First, is there a more preferable product to use to serve files, mostly PDF, from the file system with Zope?  
>
>I suspect lock_file.py has changed since the DirectoryStorage product was last updated.
>
>I followed instructions on http://dirstorage.sourceforge.net/install.html to install DirectoryStorage.  I got to step 11. "Start Zope"
>and at the end of Traceback 1 (see below)
>  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/DirectoryStorage/PosixFilesystem.py", line 12, in ?
>    from ZODB.lock_file import lock_file
>ImportError: cannot import name lock_file
>
>There are no classes or methods named lock_file in lock_file.py so I changed the import statement in PosixFilesystem.py to 
>from ZODB import lock_file

The interface changed a bit.

Now, it is assumed that "LockFile" is used (and "close" to release the lock).

It is probably very simple to adapt "DirectoryStorage" correspondingly.

-- 
Dieter