Put back the defaultSkin directive. I misread the comments and only the other two directives in the misc section where deprecated.

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Updated to newer versions of zope packages. Removed long deprecated defaultSkin, layer and skin ZCML directives.

for making Zope 2.12 run with ZODB 3.9 (having ZopeUndo removed)

  however is still available on the Python level.

- No longer show the Help! links in the ZMI, if there is no help available. The help system depends on the product registry.

- Updated the quick start page and simplified the standard content. The default index_html is now a page template.

- Removed deprecated Draft and Version support from Products.OFSP. Also removed version handling from the control panel. Versions are no longer supported on the ZODB level.

- Removed left-overs of the deprecated persistent product distribution mechanism.

Give the ProductFolder back its type restriction. After ZClasses are gone, you cannot manage those TTW anymore. Automatic creation as part of the startup process still works.

The persistent product registry is not required for starting Zope anymore. `enable-product-installation` can be set to off if you don't rely on the functionality provided by the registry.

Seems some of these functions have persistent references to them in a standard install, so we better leave them in place.

ZClasses have been deprecated for two major releases. They have been removed in this version of Zope.

Python has deprecated the message attribute of exceptions in 2.6. We will keep it for this exception and avoid the warning, as message has a special meaning here.

Avoid deprecation warnings for the md5 and sha modules in Python 2.6 by adding conditional imports for the hashlib module.