[Zope-CMF] Portal Topics fun and games

[Tres Seaver]

On Tue, 29 May 2001, Robert Rottermann wrote:

> Hi Tres,
> replacing  files in cmftopics/skins/topic/*.py helps.
> topic_addCriterion.py for sure but it is not enough.

Hmm, that is bizarre.  Chris McDonough just tried to reproduce
the problem for me using cygwin's cvs, both against the public
repository and against our internal one;  neither case failed.

Can you zip up the offending sandbox (including the 'CVS' directory)
and mail me privately?

> Robert
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tres Seaver" <tseaver@palladion.com>
> To: "Robert Rottermann" <robert@rocad.ch>
> Cc: "Chris Withers" <chrisw@nipltd.com>; <zope-cmf@zope.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2001 5:40 PM
> Subject: Re: [Zope-CMF] Portal Topics fun and games
> 
> 
> > On Tue, 29 May 2001, Robert Rottermann wrote:
> >
> > > 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.
> >
> > Your diagnosis indicates a CVS misconfiguration;  some file is
> > marked as "binary" which should be "text".  Were you able to
> > identify which file it was?  (I think I remember it was one of
> > the PythonScript skin methods).

Tres.
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