On Thu, 11 May 2000, Ron Bickers wrote:
Here is one of probably many places to get recent RPMs of Python:
http://www.redhat.com/swr/i386/python-1.5.2-13.i386.html
I'm running the Python RPM and Zope RPMs and all works wonderfully.
At least one of the products (not sure which, because I've glanced at several) says in its install that python from RPMs isn't built with threads, and threads are req'd, so you have to build python from source. I can't tell if that applies only to the specific product, or the remarks are directed at all Zope operations.
Zope itself does need Python with threads. Although it's certainly true that a binary RPM may not have been compiled with threads, I did check the spec file from Red Hat's RPM above and it does have --with-threads, so the binary RPM will work. To be absolutely sure, you could get the source RPM, check the spec file and build the binary RPM yourself with a single command. This is the way to use your own build options for Python and still use RPM. _______________________ Ron Bickers Logic Etc, Inc. rbickers@logicetc.com