Hi Andreas, Andreas Jung wrote:

--On Dienstag, 11. Mai 2004 10:21 Uhr -0400 Kevin Tie <ktie@baseline-dg.com> wrote:

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I would really like a build of zope that has working ftp downloads (no straight 100% cpu utilization, no throttling to 10Kb/s) but I really don't know what sort of condition the 2.7branch wip is in. Can anyone vouch for the stability of what's there right now? Is there a more recent windows build other than what's available on the zope.org website or do I need to build from cvs?

Windows is not really a stable plattform for running Zope.

I've been running Zope on Windows for a couple or three years now (primarily NT4, but more recently W2K) and under my pattern of usage (/Relatively/ light usage, but far from trivial) I've had no significant stability problems - a good few quirks, but nothing more than comes with the territory. I'm sure that for high load situations (possibly in the OP's case?), and where there is a lot more interfacing and coding going on, a non-Windows platform would have advantages - but I wouldn't like your comment to put anyone off considering or deploying Zope on Windows. Put it this way - it's more stable than Windows itself, and more stable than many bread-and-butter applications many of us run on Windows every day. If I was specifying an environment for Zope from scratch, I /wouldn't/ choose Windows. I've never had that luxury - my situation has always been "Windows is a given - now what?". I've never been bitten choosing Zope in that environment. -- Regards, PhilK Email: phil@xfr.co.uk / Voicemail & Facsimile: 07092 070518 "The lyf so short, the craft so long to learne" - Chaucer