[Zope-CMF] Portal Topics fun and games

marc lindahl marc@bowery.com
Tue, 29 May 2001 13:28:10 -0400


I had a similar problem with transferring files between my linux box and mac
-- perhaps it's not the CVS client, but something else, that's doing text
translations.  For me it was the FTP client, and my text editor (before I
switched to and properly configured Alpha)

> From: "Robert Rottermann" <robert@rocad.ch>
> Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 19:10:54 +0200
> To: "Chris Withers" <chrisw@nipltd.com>, <zope-cmf@zope.org>
> Subject: Re: [Zope-CMF] Portal Topics fun and games
> 
> Hi Chris,
> you are luckier than me. I had the same problem as you and got nearly nuts
> till I resolved it.
> 
> The problem is as I narrowed it down somehow related to the differences in
> CR/LF's between windoze and linux.
> If you get cmf-head by help of win-cvs IT WILL NOT WORK!
> The only way (that worked for me) was to get CMF-head to a linux box, and
> copy it to a my windox machine. Downloading it to the windoze machine and
> copying it to the linux box did not work.
> 
> To veryfy that this is the actual problem start zope from start.bat (I
> assume you are not on linux) with -D as a parameter.
> As soon as you access either a ZMI with a a CMF-Site (or create a new one if
> there is none) you will see tracebacks in the dos box from where you
> started.
> 
> OK what can you do if you have no Linux machine idling at your place?. If
> you want to, I can give you access to the CMF-Head on the linuxbox I use to
> downlod it from the Zope site. From there you can donload it by help of
> ftpmirror which is part of a normal Python installation.
> 
> Just let me know
> 
> Robert
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chris Withers" <chrisw@nipltd.com>
> To: <zope-cmf@zope.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2001 6:00 PM
> Subject: [Zope-CMF] Portal Topics fun and games
> 
> 
>> Wow, I feel like a total newbie :-S
>> 
>> Hey, I am! :-)
>> 
>> How do I get Portal Topics up and running? I've run the installer external
>> method (having to do that's quite unpleasant, is there a nicer way it
> could
>> be done?) but I noticed that the 'Topic' skin was still empty.
>> 
>> When I try to add a topic, I get a NotFound on topic_edit_form, which is
>> understandable.
>> 
>> How can I fix it?
>> 
>> cheers,
>> 
>> Chris
>> 
>> 
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