[Pkg-zope-developers] Products path

[Igor Stroh]

Encolpe DEGOUTE wrote:
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>>Ok, sounds reasonable. Now what about the old packages using
>>a) /usr/lib/zope/lib/python/Products? Should they move to
>>b) /usr/share/zope/Products ASAP? If so, what's the best way to do it?
>>I mean one definitely has to purge a) before an update, but is it safe
>>to just remove those files? What if they were locally modified?
> 
> 
> I have made it for several packages some months ago, but they was no
> upload.
> I do not think that we have to remove old installation: we can break
> sites already used.

Yes, but then the Product would be still loaded from a) and a the
new package in b) would have no effect...

> If there were locally change, a good admin will create a patch to
> maintain his local change. We can add a message to remember this to
> users.
> We can create a zopeutils package with our administration scripts for
> zope and products. I have began to work on it... but it stalled since
> one month. You can see the specifications in attachment.

Hm, would you mind to upload it to alioth? I'd like to contribute if I can.
I wished quite often there would be such a utility but I had no time to
implement it myself...

Greetings,
Igor