Chris Petrilli wrote:

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[Question about newbie installing 2.0alpha]

For the same reason that we will *not* provide binaries of the alpha releases (and may only provide them for later betas and "release candidates"), alpha are certainly not a good place to start for someone new to Zope, especially if you do not have extensive experience with Python and whatever platform you are running on.

Hmm, I realize this, but, although I am a newbie on Linux and Python, I _have_ been playing with Zope for a while now (I'm the original author of the global tree-tag navigation howto) on NT. I figured though that compiling Zope on Linux would probably be a lot cleaner, as that's the platform you do your development on.

This only begs to have all kinds of problems related to issues outside our control.

This was why I decided to install on an unmodified RedHat machine, so as to minimize those issues.

I would recommend you start with 1.10.2, as there is plenty in there to get your head wrapped around before delving into the new features of 2.0 ... even once 2.0 is RELEASED, it is still a x.0 release, and therefore is really only for those people who NEED to be on the bleeding edge (i.e. because they'll need ZClasses, or some such), rather than a general populace release.

Yup, got it in one! I _have_ been using 1.10.2, and I _do_ need that extra functionality. Thank you for your attention, Michael Bernstein.