On Friday 09 January 2004 03:23 am, Lennart Regebro wrote:
I have to agree with the recommendations of never running Zope with the OS Python. In fact, I usually don't even get it to work, since the OS Python have a tendency to not include modules included in the standard Python distribution, or behave weridly in some other way. For example, OpenBSD's standard binary Python used to barf on py files with Windows line endings, a big problem if you run a mixed environment.
Actually I disagree. I run debian sid systems and I use the os python for zope. I have never had a problem with it and it saves me a huge ammount of headaches since any updates for security etc get automatically applied when I do updates. I use the debian install of zope also so everything is in the dependency system. This has not caused me to run into any strange problems and debian for a long while now has had multiple versions of python available so zope just uses has whichever one it needs as a dependency. It just seems to work very well and it saves me a lot of time. I have also not had a zope crash in about 2 years now even when doing product developmet under zope by just following the version of zope that is in debian sid which usually lags behind a new zope release by a few days.