Dear Zope Developers, I'm manager of a development project for a scientific network-based compute appliance that will be Zope-based. I have only limited experience with Zope (starting with 2.0.0a2) but I'm an experienced programmer and sysadmin. I'm getting to be experienced with installing new Zope releases, which is where my quibble comes from. My quibble is that doing updates to Zope is harder than it should be because of the directory structure. Life would be sweet in Zopeville if everything that varies from installation to installation would be kept in var. This way, I could simply keep a var directory in a place outside the Zope tree itself and make a symlink to it as part of the install. Instead, I have var, Extensions, import (I think, haven't used this feature yet), and (the worst) parts of lib/python/Products that have to be moved with each install. I would like to suggest that the Extensions and import directory be moved to var in future releases, that var/Products be created and put on the search path, and that the rest of the tree be specified as read-only. I can of course do this myself with symlinks (and I will), I think a change in the official distribution might save us all a little trouble. Cheers, Joel -- Joel Berendzen Biophysics Group (P-21), D454 Phone: +1.505.665.2552 Los Alamos National Laboratory FAX: +1.505.665.4507 Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA. email: joelb@lanl.gov