[Zope] [Zope-Annce] ZClasses resurrected

Allen Schmidt Sr. aschmidt at fredericksburg.com
Sun Oct 4 16:40:15 EDT 2009


So...we are on 2.8.10 and our biggest app on our site is a ZClass based 
news object. How close will this provide functionality to just drop our 
data.fs into 2.12 and have those zclasses work?
This is huge news! Thanks Dieter!!!!

-Allen


Dieter Maurer wrote:
> The Zope developers have ripped out the ZClasses functionality from
> the Zope core in version 2.12.
>
> As promised, I have collected the former code in a new package
> ("dm.zopepatches.zclasses" on PyPI). When imported, this package
> uses monkey patching to restore the ZClasses functionality.
> New tests verify the functionality as formerly described in the
> Zope book (2.7 edition).
>
> To make "ZClasses" available again,
> the ZODB root database requires "dm.zopepatches.zclasses.ClassFactory"
> as "class-factory" option in the Zope configuration file.
> When this option is processed, the package is imported
> and the monkey patching takes place.
>
>
> The current version does not yet restore the "distribution" functionality
> (of Zope products). Let me know when you need this functionality.
>
>   


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