On Dec 28, 2007 8:40 AM, Jim Fulton <jim@zope.com> wrote:

On Dec 28, 2007, at 9:30 AM, Jeff Shell wrote:

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I still can't get a Egg based Zope app/site up and running.

That's amazing.

I think that some of the problem stems from us using a lot of core Zope 3 bits, and we have to take on some of the core ZCML bootstrapping ourselves (zope.app.zcmlfiles doesn't cover everything that we use). It was as I was going through this bit by bit that I stumbled into the zope.filerepresentation issue. Which I now realize is a non-issue! I just assumed it had a configure.zcml like everything else. Since it was locked away in a zipped egg and I was pressured for time, I never unpacked it to check the contents. I think the issue stemmed from not including it as a dependency, so an import failed. When I added the dependency, I then blindly added an <include package="zope.filerepresentation"/> to my app's site.zcml out of habit. OK. I do have a new instance up now. It's a bit messily put together, but I finally see that it can be done with our current software. I can move forward!

A while ago, I pointed you at some working buildouts that used Zope 3 as eggs. Why not use those as starting points?

I did, and they helped. But just to get our core system up and running required some different setups and dependencies that were a little harder to figure out. And I ran into that zope.filerepresentation non-issue right when I ran out of time. Thanks, Jeff Shell