On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 21:29:36 -0700, Andreas Jung <lists@zopyx.com> wrote:
The recommendation is still "System python is evil, evil, evil" (quoting Jim).
Sure, but if you ever want to be able to tell users to do: easy_install plone to get their Plone site, it's a necessary evil evil evil. ;) We generally encourage not to use the system Python in everything we ship (Windows, Mac and Unified installers all ship their own Python) — but I really hope we won't be stuck with Python 2.4 after the world has moved on to Python 2.5 and 2.6. I agree that for proper deployments, you shouldn't use the system Python, but there's the case of letting people get started with Plone easily from their Ubuntu or Mac OS X (Leopard ships with Python 2.5 and easy_install by default) — we should be able to let them do that too. -- Alexander Limi · http://limi.net