I have created (yet another, perhaps) "easy Zope install" branch off the current Zope trunk. It allows for a "./configure; make; make install" sort of Zope installation for the source release. It also includes a version of the nascent "zctl.py" that has been floating around unreleased to make starting, stopping, and debugging Zope easier. I'd like to know if folks are in favor of such a beast. Here is a sample session for flavor: [chrism@james InstallerBranch]$ ./configure --prefix=/home/chrism/opt/zoptest Configuring Zope installation Testing for an acceptable Python interpreter... The optimimum Python version (2.1.3) was found at /home/chrism/bin/python. Configuring... SOFTWARE_HOME (Zope binary directory) will be /home/chrism/opt/zoptest. Makefile written. 'makeinstance' script written. [chrism@james InstallerBranch]$ make /home/chrism/bin/python /home/chrism/software/InstallerBranch/inst/compile_all.py ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Compiling python modules Building extension modules /home/chrism/bin/python setup.py build_ext -i running build_ext building 'AccessControl.cAccessControl' extension gcc -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -g -O2 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -fPIC -I/home/chrism/software/InstallerBranch/lib/Components/ExtensionClass/src -I/home/chrism/opt/Python2.1.3/include/python2.1 -c AccessControl/cAccessControl.c -o build/temp.linux-i686-2.1/cAccessControl.o ... and so on ... chmod 0711 /home/chrism/software/InstallerBranch/var ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ /bin/touch /home/chrism/software/InstallerBranch/build Zope built. Next, do make install. [chrism@james InstallerBranch]$ make install /bin/mkdir -p /home/chrism/opt/zoptest /bin/cp -r -u /home/chrism/software/InstallerBranch/* /home/chrism/opt/zoptest ... and so on ... Zope binaries installed successfully. Now run /home/chrism/opt/zoptest/makeinstance. [chrism@james InstallerBranch]$ /home/chrism/opt/zoptest/makeinstance The instance home is the directory from which you will run Zope. Several instance homes, each with their own data and configuration, can share one copy of Zope. Instance home [/home/chrism/opt/zoptest]: /home/chrism/opt/instance '/home/chrism/opt/instance' does not exist. Shall I create it [y]? Created. Created 'Extensions' directory. Created 'import' directory. Created 'Products' directory. Created 'var' directory. Created default database Created zctl.py ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Now to create a starting user. Leave the username blank if you want to skip this step. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Please choose a username and password. This will create the initial user with which you manage Zope. Username: admin Password: Verify password: chmod 0644 /home/chrism/opt/instance/inituser Done! Use "/home/chrism/opt/instance/zctl.py start" to start Zope. [chrism@james InstallerBranch]$ cd ~ [chrism@james chrism]$ cd opt/instance/ [chrism@james instance]$ ./zctl.py start Starting Zope, using: "/home/chrism/bin/python" "/home/chrism/opt/zoptest/z2.py" [chrism@james instance]$