Re: Migrate from ZMS 2.3.2-b45 (Zope 2.7.5) to latest ZMS and Zope

You are right! A pro would do it like you have described. 

My Unix/Linux knowledge is somehow limitated ;-) so I decided to go the 
lazy man's way of using the some Plone Installers for Windows to 
perform the upgrades....

ciao
Frank

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On Thu, 11 Jun 2009 11:29:58 +0200, Niels Dettenbach wrote:
> 
> 
> Am Donnerstag 11 Juni 2009 schrieb Frank Rossi:
>> (For each environment I use a "Parallels" VirtualMachine)
> 
> hmm, this means you use many different operating system images / virtual 
> machines for each zms version?
> 
> Why not using different zope / zms / python installations on the same 
> machine / system? I do this under Linux and netBSD since several years. Not 
> all distributions allow different zope installations by their package 
> management, but in that case you can do manual installs into 
> different pathes 
> on your filesystem (like /usr/local/zope/2.8 /usr/local/2.10). 
> 
> As usual your different zope-instances on the same machine just have 
> to use a 
> different port-base (zope.conf) to avoid port collisions.
> 
> I.e. Gentoo Linux, and the BSDs allowing parallel installs by default from 
> their package / ports management.
> 
> As Parallels seems to be Mac OSX and Mac OSX is Unix-like it should 
> be easy to 
> install zope manually in such a wise (at least manual) too - nut may 
> be into 
> another path (like somewhere into your home dir).
> 
> May be this should allows "quasi automatic" upgrades of ZMS instances by a 
> script which is going through the whole update path by a python 
> script too - 
> but i never tried this. If someone worked out such a script i would be very 
> interested too...
> 
> hth and good luck so far...
> best regards,
> 
> Niels.
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