-----Original Message----- From: Evan Simpson <evan@4-am.com> To: Brian Lauer <fozbaca@yahoo.com> Cc: zope@zope.org <zope@zope.org>; zope-dev@zope.org <zope-dev@zope.org> Date: Thursday, September 23, 1999 3:52 PM Subject: Re: [Zope] Re: [Zope-dev] [Zope] Barriers to Zope popularity

Brian Lauer wrote:

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From my experience of trying to intrest co-workers in Zope there were 2 problems.

1. Python - they don't know python, but might be willing to learn if it wasn't for 2...

Not really necessary, but helpful, and quite valuable in its own right...

I agree. You can do a whole lot without using Python. For someone who knows how to use a programming language, picking up python is probably not going to be too difficult.

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2. ISP/Web Hosting companies don't sopport Pyhton as a cgi enviroment or Zope.

If the latter, check Zope.org's downloads for nice complete binary distributions of Zope complete with built-in Python. If you can do CGI on your ISP, you can do PCGI with Zope. [some snippage above]

One caveat: I have found that many hosting companies are not keen on the PCGI way of doing things, because it permanently sucks up memory, etc. In looking at hosting companies, I found that to be a bigger issue than running Python. (I thought most hosting companies provided Python already). Still, I think Zope is powerful enough to easily justify a switch in hosting companies (which is not really *that* big a deal for many configurations). In fact, I *did* switch hosting companies so that I could use Zope. Kevin