+1 -- I'm afraid my answer assumed a vanilla Zope/Plone sight.
On Fri, 13 Apr 2007, Paul Winkler wrote: > On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 12:36:13PM -0500, s wrote: > > I just took over a website that was done in Zope/Plone. The person formerly > > responsible for it was not helpful to the client or me in the transition > > process. Basically he emailed a ZEXP file to me, told me it contains > > everything I need, and washed his hands of the whole project. > > The .zexp cannot contain everything you need. It will contain all the > data (assuming he didn't miss anything), but that data can only be > loaded if you have a zope system running with all the correct > third-party software installed. You should insist on being provided > with: > > - Zope version > > - Name and version number for every subdirectory of > $INSTANCE_HOME/Products/ > (including, of course, Plone) > ... usually each subdirectory will have a file named version.txt > > - Name and version number for every add-on Python package installed to > the system, if any. > > Without this information, you will be unable to load the .zexp. > > -- > > Paul Winkler > http://www.slinkp.com > _______________________________________________ > Zope maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope > ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** > (Related lists - > http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce > http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ) > -- _______________________________________________ Zope maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )
