[6.0rc1] some addons directly access tools.config['addons_path']

[Olivier Dony (Odoo)]

Starting with v6.0 OpenERP supports multiple addons paths. This means that one cannot simply access tools.config['addons_path'] and use it with os.path.join to access a resource file from a module.
OpenERP also support zipped modules, which means that merely doing an os.path.join() will not work to open the file.

Please instead use addons.get_module_resource( ) to obtain the path to the resource (which could be inside a zip file!)
Also make sure to verify the return value of get_module_resource( ), which could be False when the file was not found.

You could also use directly tools.misc.file_open() which will return the open file even if it is inside a zip (also needs its own error checking)

[Olivier Dony (Odoo) (odo-openerp)]

Marked openobject-server affectation as invalid because tools.misc.file_open already supports multiple addons paths as introduced in v6, sorry about the spam.

[Harry (OpenERP) (hmo-tinyerp)]

Hello,

It is committed into lp:~openerp-dev/openobject-addons/trunk-dev-addons1 at Revision 3597.

Thanks