Re: [gentoo-user] Plone

["JDM" <jdm@arcticwolf.myzen.co.uk>]

yeah its not really the way to go but nevermind. Probably won't use it anyway. A little too complicated for my needs. Looking for something a bit simpler? 


JDM

-----Original Message-----
From: Florian Philipp <lists@binarywings.net>
Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2011 12:03:01 
To: <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>
Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Plone

Am 18.06.2011 08:50, schrieb john:
> On Fri, 17 Jun 2011 17:48:31 -0700
> Keith Dart <keith@dart.us.com> wrote:
> 
>> === On Sat, 06/18, john wrote: ===
>>> On Sat, 18 Jun 2011 00:31:39 +0200
>>> Florian Philipp <lists@binarywings.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Am 17.06.2011 23:16, schrieb john:
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>
>>>>> I have installed Plone but unfortunately it will not run. I
>>>>> believe this is down to PIL not being installed as shown when
>>>>> starting Zope in foreground. 
>>>>>
>>>>> I have emerged dev-python/imaging but Zope still cannot see
>>>>> PIL. I think the issue is because Plone/Zope depends on python
>>>>> 2.4. 
>>>>>
>>>>> Any recommendations on a fix???
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> You might have to run python-updater in order to install all
>>>> python-packages for this version. I'm not sure if python-updater
>>>> does this correctly if you don't have python-2.4 enabled via
>>>> `eselect python`. You might want to try this as well.
>>>>
[...]
>>
>>> Think the python-updater looks forward but not backward (if you see
>>> what I mean) 
>>
>> It is called the UPdater, after all.
>>
>>> I have also tried changing all the references in bin scripts from
>>> python2.4 to python2.7 but this fails miserably. The only thing I
>>> can think of at the moment is to download manual package and
>>> install but I'm really not sure where this is going to stick all
>>> the modules?
>>
>> Ugh, yep. But Python is slotted, so you shouldn't have to worry about
>> that. 
>>
>> --
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> Keith Dart <keith@dart.us.com>
>> =====================================================================
> 
> Always a little unsure about installing packages
> manually. I like to let emerge do everything.
> 
> I eselect python set 1 which set python2.4. Downloaded
> Imaging-1.1.6.tar.gz from Python site. Installed using setup.py install.
> Switched back to python2.7.
> 
> Old instance would not run but:-
> 
> Then created a new zopeinstance. Copied the
> contents /usr/share/zproduct/plone-3.1.7/lib/python
> and /usr/share/zproduct/plone-3.1.7/Products 
> 
> to instance
> 
> And yippee I can create Plone site and all looks good at the mo
> 
> Thanks for advice

I've once ran Plone on Gentoo. I'm pretty sure I didn't have to resort
to manual installing but I can't remember what the solution was. Anyway,
it was too much trouble and I dropped Plone. If I ever have to use it
again, I just use a virtualized Linux installation for it which comes
with python-2.4 out-of-the-box. I'd recommend Scientific Linux-5.5
(update to 5.6 coming soon) as a Red Hat clone.

Regards,
Florian Philipp