> WRT maintenance of the system:  while at ZC, I actually maintained a
> separate 'zc-python' RPM which installed itself in '/opt/zc';  all the
> Zope RPMs I maintained depended on 'zc-python' rather than 'python'.

What's the recommended way of maintaining an extra Python installation for Zope? Is changing the path enough or should one run the instance in a chroot'ed environment?

And what's supposed to be the "correct" Python version for 2.8.4 btw?

Regards,
Harald