Re: [Zope] What causes the community to stall so often?

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Most people want to install a binary package these days (in practice this means RPM). When you look at the downloads, you see that the latest RPM is not the most recent Zope version. Oops! I thought, is this a serious product? (Please note: this first impression is important)

I totally agree on this. That was my first impression - it could be cool, but I have to be a guru to install it. And that the RPMs are so out of date. There's no reason for this - if the spec file is maintained, you could automatically generate an rpm every time you tar up the release. A good spec file will also take care of dependencies, and defaults like pcgi or whatever, and also do nice stuff like put a startup script in init.d or whatever.