Package README (CVS ver. 1.3)

WHAT

  SpeedPack is a speed optimisation for every product that is based on CMF. It
  was original written as some changes to CMFPlone but later moved to a seperate
  product.

HOW

  SpeedPack increases the speed of Zope and CMF by:

   * Optimising some expansive methods of Zope (TAL, security manager for zope
   <2.7)
     with psyco

   * Caching skins

INSTALLATION

  * CMF 1.3.x or 1.4.x - http://cmf.zope.org/

  * psyco - http://psyco.sf.net/

  Simply drop the SpeedPack product into your Products directory and install it
  with the QuickInstaller. This will replace the custom folder with Skin Custom
  Folder.

CONFIGURATION

  There are two configuration options available in the __init__.py file. If you
  have any problems with one of the two optimisations you could turn it of by
  setting the option to False.

FOR CMF 1.3.x USERS

  SpeedPack replaces CMFSite.setupCurrentSkin() with the version from CMF 1.4.x
  and adds getSkinNameFromRequest() and getSkin(). This may break your software
  so keep care! On the other hand you kind change the skin in the middle of a
  request right.

KNOWN ISSUES

  Psyco does work only on i386 family processors. It's not available for other
  processors.

  You *must* install SpeedPack with the QuickInstaller or an ExternalMethod to
  replace the custom folder with a Skin Custom Folder.

  If you get an CopySupport error while installing the product please update
  your zope. manage_renameObject doesn't work with at least 2.7b4 and 2.6.3b3

For more information see http://sourceforge.net/projects/collective/

CONTACT

  Geoff Davis -- original author of the skin patch and psyco optimisations

  Christian 'Tiran' Heimes <heimes@faho.rwth-aachen.de> -- maintainer