Zope Binary Release Changes for Zope 2.6
Zope is currently released in three binary formats: Windows - i386 Solaris 2.6 - SPARC Linux RH 5.2 - i386 All binary releases come with python 2.1.3, built without large file support. We are proposing to change the binary distributions to newer releases, at least on the Solaris and Linux platforms. The new Solaris binary would be Solaris 2.8. The new Linux binary would be RedHat 7.2 based (i.e. glibc 2.1). It is very likely that the supplied Pythons would be built with large file support *enabled* for these platform, unless some unforseen compatibility issue arose. If there are requirements for keeping the binary distributions based on the older software, we need to understand these requirements. Please follow up with this thread on the zope-dev@zope.org list if you wish to participate. -- Matt Kromer Zope Corporation http://www.zope.com/
On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 10:57:14AM -0400, Matthew T. Kromer wrote:
Zope is currently released in three binary formats:
Windows - i386
Solaris 2.6 - SPARC
Linux RH 5.2 - i386
All binary releases come with python 2.1.3, built without large file support.
We are proposing to change the binary distributions to newer releases, at least on the Solaris and Linux platforms.
The new Solaris binary would be Solaris 2.8.
The new Linux binary would be RedHat 7.2 based (i.e. glibc 2.1).
It is very likely that the supplied Pythons would be built with large file support *enabled* for these platform, unless some unforseen compatibility issue arose.
Is it difficult to make the GNU/Linux binary distro independent? All the binaries that I have been using from the Zope site work to the best of my knowledge on distros. Why mention Redhat specailly? I work on Debian Woody 3.0, and the python 2.1 is compiled with large file system support. Nagarjuna
On Tue, 20 Aug 2002 10:57:14 -0400 "Matthew T. Kromer" <matt@zope.com> wrote:
Zope is currently released in three binary formats:
Windows - i386
Solaris 2.6 - SPARC
Linux RH 5.2 - i386
All binary releases come with python 2.1.3, built without large file support.
We are proposing to change the binary distributions to newer releases, at least on the Solaris and Linux platforms.
The new Solaris binary would be Solaris 2.8.
The new Linux binary would be RedHat 7.2 based (i.e. glibc 2.1).
A bit off your question, but related: As to Linux, what, specifically, are the RedHat specific things? I always take the Linux one and install on Caldera. Never a problem yet. I understand that it may be where you test it and thus the only one you want to claim anything about, but beyond the glibc2.1 thing, what else is so RedHat specific? All the python/Zope stuff is self-contained wherever you install it. It does not use any pre-installed python. With the change, maybe making it understood that the RPMs probably work on other distros could be good. Maybe a list of ones reported to work may be nice. Just to let users of other distros know that they are not forgotten... -- Roger Oberholtzer
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