[Zope3-dev] Re: Photo product (was questions about ZConfig and ZCML)

[Kent Tenney]

Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:

> Kent Tenney wrote:
> 
>> My previous inquiry about ZConfig and ZCML led
>> to the suggestion to look at the Photo product.
>>
>> I'm starting from scratch here.
>>
>> I'm logging some as I go, http://longrun.org/wiki/Zope3Log
> 
> 
> I get an assertion error here.
A rare glitch at http://zettai.net, it should be ok now.

> 
>> I've installed the photo product in the instance directory;
>> c:\cygwin\home\ktenney\Zope3\lib\python\photo
>>
>> - What is the correct contents of photo-configure.zcml?
>>   (the Book indicates
>>    <include package="zope.app.photo" />
>>    but I'd prefer not to install to
>>    c:\Python23\Lib\site-packages\zope\app)
> 
> 
> Right, 'zope.app' is the mother package of all packages that are 
> specific to the Zope application server. Since Photo is not such a 
> package and even depends on third party libraries (PIL, imagemagick), 
> the convention is to put it *outside* of Zope, simply as a top-level 
> package. That means you can put it *anywhere* you want in your Python 
> path; recommended is $INSTANCE/lib/python.
> 
> The ZCML slug (photo-configure.zcml) would then simply read:
> 
>   <include package="photo" />
that ZCML syntax behaves like 'import' in source code...?

> 
> Examples for top-level packages that are Zope applications are:
> 
> - buddydemo (http://svn.zope.org/Zope3/trunk/src/buddydemo)
> 
> - zwiki (http://svn.zope.org/Zope3/trunk/src/zwiki)
> 
> - z3checkins (http://svn.zope.org/Zope3/trunk/src/z3checkins)
I'll check those out.

Thanks,
Kent

> 
>> - What is the proper way to stop the Zope3 application?
>>   (I've been closing the cmd window I ran *runzope* from)
> 
> 
> Ctrl+C when running runzope. zopectl stop when running the zdaemon.
> 
> Philipp
> 
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