On Thursday 25 October 2001 10:56 am, earth_to_zope@space.com wrote:
Is it possible/good-idea to run 2 different versions of Zope on the same server (using 2 different ports)?
yes its possible, they don't need to share anything. i do this for development and testing.
I have a Zope-1.10 application running on a RedHat 7.1 server installation (using ZHTTPserver listening to port 9673). It installed it's own Python (1.5.1, I think). The RedHat 7.1 installed 1.5.2.
wow, i don't even know that you can find such an archaic system anymore other than checking out a cvs branch.
Can I install the current version of Zope and have it listen on a different port (and *I assume* using the system's 1.5.2 Python)?
yes. you need to be careful about what the python version requirements are, ie if 1.10 depends on py 1.5.1 and zope requires its probably easiest to install a different version of python into non-system directory and either create a user with a modified path to run a new version zope or explicitly compile the new zope with the full path to the new python. you can switch version of python zope is running in whatever shell script you use to start zope (start for a standard zope distro).
Also, where does Python v2.x fit into Zope?
zope 2.4 and above require python, below 2.4 (at least to 2.0?) work with python1.5.2
I'd like to start the process of rebuilding this old 1.10 application (that was dropped in my lap) using the current version of Zope and possibly (as someone suggested earlier) using MySQL instead of ZTables for the database info.
sounds like a good idea. hth