Hi, IMHO, Zope *is* fairly easy to build and install. I had to muddle through a bit to get it to work on pair's servers, but I did get it working and it would not be difficult to make sure that the install docs contain the necessary info. The big issue that I've found is that many hosting companies do not want people to run Zope because of its resource requirements. It takes a lot more of a machine's memory to run a bunch of Zope instances than it does to run Apache instances. But, I think people would have a similar issue with ColdFusion. Just as there are hosting companies that offer ColdFusion as an (optional, usually) feature, I think it would be good for many of those same companies to offer Zope. CodeIt does a really good job today of offering a fully-baked Zope service. I don't have to muck about with the Zope installation at all. IMHO, having hosting companies offer some preconfigured Zope services is a bigger win than making it a bit easier for people to install Zope in their user space (which is against many web hosting company's policies anyhow). Kevin --- interrante@yahoo.com wrote:

However, I would like to state that for the user base to expand significantly 2.0 needs to be very easy to install on a hosted website (http://www.hiway.com/) . This is where most of the new sites are coming from (check out the information from www.netcraft.com) People with hosted accounts have apache and cgi and want a trivial way to set up and get content online (Frontpage does a good job here). Please consider this a *massive* potential audience for this tool and build simple configuration scripts, yada, yada, that make this a trivial task. Comments?

Mark Interrante

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