[egenix-users] mxDateTime and Zope

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Ulrich Wisser wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> after more investigation I found that mxDateTime has
> replaced the Zope builtin DateTime module. I belive, but
> did not verify, that the option --with-zope to the configure
> script did the trick. Anyway, this led to the fact that
> DateTime could no longer be used in DTML and PageTemplates.
> After restoring the original DateTime everything works fine.
> 
> Any idea why that is so and why the option --with-zope
> exists if it doesn't work?

I am not aware of such an option in distutils. You should
install the mx base package directly into lib/python:

python setup.py install --install-lib=zopedir/lib/python --install-data=zopedir/lib/python

(with zopedir replaced by the Zope instance directory)

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Marc-Andre Lemburg
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