[Zope] shared_products -- where?

[Paul Winkler]

On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 05:08:09PM +0100, Tobias Herp wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> After reading http://www.zope.org/Members/4am/instancehome, I just 
> transformed my standard Zope 2.6.2 installation (on RedHat 7)
> into a INSTANCE_HOME version, like this (view in fixed width font):
(snip)
> This works fine, with one exception:  I didn't manage yet to get Zope
> recognise the products in the shared_products folder.  I tried a lot of
> variants of case and softlink location, but without success, and I 
> couldn't find anything in the web.  How exactly is this supposed to 
> work?  Are there any special __init__.py files needed anywhere?

You need to add shared_products to the PRODUCTS_PATH environment
variable. (This changes to a setting in the config file for zope 2.7,
I don't know exactly what.)

Note that most products work fine in any location on $PRODUCTS_PATH,
with one exception: CMF and related products (like Plone).
There seems to be a bug (reported) in FSDirectoryView which
makes it work only in $INSTANCE_HOME/Products or 
$SOFTWARE_HOME/lib/python/Products.

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