On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, Andy McKay wrote:
I guess I have to install the zope-perl stuff from ActiveState, right?
Yes, Zope Perl doesn't come with Zope. You have to install it. But dont worry, usually installing it is the hardest part. I found the "Installing Zope-Perl on Debian" HOWTO ( http://www.zope.org/Members/ajlouie/zoperl ) . As a Debian maintainer I wonder if I would really need commercial products like ActivePerl and ActivePython to run Zope-Perl. Please do not missunderstood this lines: It is really OK what companies like ActiveState do and they do a good job for the Open Source community. But we as Debian project are just not allowed to ship this kind of software for legal reasons.
When I find a useful program I try to integrate it into Debian and thus I wonder if there is any way to go with free tools to enable Perl in Zope. What is the main difference of the Active{Perl,Python} distributions which make them a prerequisite for zope-perl? Kind regards and thanks for the hint Andreas.