From: "John Poltorak" <jp@warpix.org>
I looked into upgrading yesterday and it looks like a nightmare because the latest Python RPM has so many prerequisites which are not available,
I find that it's almost always easier and faster to download both Python and Zope fom source and compile it, than to use precompiled package.
and I can't build it from source because I don't have c++ installed and have no idea about what is involved in installing it.
You are running on a Linux system that doesn't have gcc? Wow. Yeah, that would cause problems. The prerequisites to building Zope is only gcc (or MSVC on Windows) and Python 2.3.3, as far as I know. What the prerequisites for Python 2.3.3 is I don't know, I have always been able to just compile it on a clean Linux system with gcc, so it shouldn't be that much problems.