Hi Dieter,
Yup. I'd rather install from source too.
I'm interested in hearing from people who you think we should continue to create binary tarball distributions for Linux. It doesn't sound like you use the binary Zope distro for Linux, or do you?
- C
I have long advocated that zope.org drop binaries for linux. I think that packaging is too political and too tricky for zope.org to be doing. In particular, proper FHS support seems to be tricky. I think that virtually every distribution packages Zope now. If people want to use a binary version, then it seems more appropriate that they use the distribution's, and that the distribution take the heat when it fails to work. I would recommend that zope.org publicize links to distribution's versions, probably with a "outside our control, quality problems should be taken up with the distribution" disclaimer. In particular, the current binary on zope.org, with its non-FHS, non-anything standard path scheme, in my opinion, causes more grief than it is worth. Jim Penny Windows is another story: I try to stay as far away as possible, but I suspect that the windows binary is a boon to those who want to use that platform.
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