On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 07:56:47AM -0500, McDonnell, Larry wrote:

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Just tried to install Zope-2.6.1 from src on my vanilla redhat7.1 system. Its running python 2.1.1 (I know...I should upgrade)

Hi,

I have been running zope on win2000 machines and I was looking to go to linux/redhat. I thought zope installed it's own python during installation, is this diferent in linux?

Thanks.

It depends on how you install it. The zope.org binary package installs its own python. The problem with that is that it is always in a non-standard place, and installing extensions gets to be hairy - you often have to install in multiple locations. Also, it can be very interesting to debug - unless you do things right, starting python from the command line gets you something different than what zope is actually using. So, you see mails form people to the effect of "I just tested this, and it worked fine from python, why is zope broken?" The zope.org source package does not include python. So, if you install from source, you will always be using your system's python, which probably came from your distribution. The third alternative is to use the distribution supplied zope. There may be deficiencies with these packages. The Debian package is in pretty good shape. I can't vouch for others. Frankly, I wish that zope.org would quit distributing linux binaries - I think that the confusion it creates is greater than the "instant gratification" value. But, I do not get to make that call. Jim Penny

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