On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 06:20:22PM +0100, David Given wrote: | Does anyone know what the timescale is for Zope 3 packages being put together | for Debian? This is unforeseeable without someone stepping up to do the work. | I have a project I'd like to work on, and I suspect that Zope 3 | is a better bet than Zope 2 It is, IMO. | --- but Zope 3's not out yet I'm not even sure of the quality of the zope 2 package in debian. A couple developers recently started taking over the packages and fixing them up. I'm sure their doing a good job (and I hope they keep it up), but I don't know how close to "done" they are (ie things may change or be reorganized, or you might deviate sufficiently that it would be easier to work from the zope.org source). | Is it worth waiting | or should I just go for Zope 2? Don't wait, unless you're the one to do the packaging work. | (No, I don't want to install Zope 3 manually. It's sufficiently large and | sufficiently complex that it'd be a dependency nightmare.) As Andreas pointed out, it is really quite simple and not a nightmare. Furthermore, if you want to have some help from the packaging system, create a dummy package using 'equivs' to depend on the system components your z3 application will need. HTH, -D -- In my Father's house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. John 14:2-3 www: http://dman13.dyndns.org/~dman/ jabber: dman@dman13.dyndns.org