David Bear wrote:
I know it has been asked many times which os is best for zope, I have yet to see a 'system administration perspective' in the discussion. By this I mean which os seems to have the most worry free administration of a zope instances. I have installed zope on both FreeBSD and various linucies and here is what I have observed:
1) Freebsd ports collection is an easy way to install zope -- the ports maintainer takes care of making the build files to handle all the zope dependencies including python versions, libraries, etc. However, I have yet to use portupgrade to apply security patches to zope instances running on freebsd. Does anyone know of using cvsupdate for getting security patches works over the ports collection of zope smoothly?
2) I've run zope on Red Hat and Suse linux. In both cases I found that I needed to install a different version of python than the one packaged with the distro becuase Zope had specific dependencies for new versions python. Applying patches to zope is manual. It has always been very inconvenient to build python and PIL in a separate run instances for zope. This seems like a major pain in the ...
i've been most happy w/ debian or ubuntu, and have also had good luck w/ gentoo. in each case, i use python (as well as nearly all python dependencies, e.g. PIL) from the distribution, but then build Zope itself from source, either a checkout or a tarball. -r