[Zope] Exporting from 1.10.3 to 2.6 (or latest)

[Robert Restad]

Thanks for the suggestions, people.

Now, reading the replies it appears to me that the best I can do is simply
to manually rewrite the application from 1.10 to 2.6... or, eh, I could
eventually rewrite it from Zope to PHP or Java, which is the languages I
know better.

Is there any particular issues I should be aware of if I decide to "port"
the application from 1.10 to 2.6? ... Anything which may cause me big
headaches underway? ... The application isnt the most advanced, it doesnt
utilize a lot of Python scripting in the code (if at all)... after going
through it, major parts seems written in DTML utilizing MySQL as its
database.

Best regards
Robert.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris McDonough" <chrism at plope.com>
To: "Robert Restad" <rr at quicknet.no>
Cc: <zope at zope.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 7:16 PM
Subject: Re: [Zope] Exporting from 1.10.3 to 2.6 (or latest)


> On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 15:12, Robert Restad wrote:
> > PS! Sorry for replying to the "cron" topic, my bad... Here is the same
> > question again slightly modified, with proper topic.
> >
> > A client have a Zope installation (ver. 1.10.3). Now, this installation
> > seems to be, eh, a far bit obsolete. I have no idea why, but even the
> > simplest things that should have worked (while coding DTML) doesnt.
>
> Wow, that is *old school*!  ;-)  Neat.
>
> >  Thus, I have installed Zope 2.6 (latest version right) on my Win32
> > workstation here... I would really have liked to be able to get the
client
> > application made in 1.10.3  to work on 2.6. I did a futile attempt on
> > exporting and importing, but eh - even the Zope newbie me figured that
only
> > magic could make that happen...
> >
> >  Is there anyone with a good clue of how to export from 1.10.3 (i.e.
> > "export.bbe") to this new version?
> >
> > (Or does any of you more experienced users have a good idea of what I
would
> > have to do to get this application working on 2.6? ... )
>
> Well, there is an ancient "bobobase conversion tool" named bbb.py that
> comes in the utilities directory of Zope 2.6 that converts a bobobase to
> something that more recent Zopes can understand (a file named
> 'something.fs' that is a filestorage file you can put in your Zope "var"
> directory.  FWIW, it's being removed in Zope 2.7.
>
> I think you can run this like (for example):
>
> python bbb.py -f converted.fs data.bbb
>
> This should put a converted.fs in the same directory from which you run
> it, then you can rename it to "Data.fs:, stick it in your Zope var
> directory, and try to start Zope.
>
> This may get you at least part of the way, but I suspect you will run
> into more problems after you convert the storage file over...
>
> - C
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