[Zope-Coders] installer branch

[Chris McDonough]

> - the branch name is actually chrism-install-branch ;)

Whoops, thanks! ;-)

> - there is some places where you might need to quote path names
because
> they might contain spaces. here is an error i got running "make"
on OS
> X:

Whoops again, this is now fixed I believe.

> - not having read any documentation i was puzzled that "make
install"
> was not the last step, as is customary. the choice of running
"make
> instance" and not "make install" might also confuse people a
little.

I wanted to make it possible to use the build directory as a
SOFTWARE_HOME if people don't want to run "make install".   Thus
"make instance" was born.  "make install" just copies the build dir
over to --prefix, so it's actually strictly sort of unnecessary.

The other option is not to print any instructions at all and just
document the crap out of it in README.txt, which might be better so
as to not confuse folks.

> - all steps from ./configure through make, make install and
> makeinstance worked fine on OS X, with the exception of the error
> because of unquoted path names as shown above during make.

Good.  I have also confirmed that it works on NetBSD, Cygwin, and
Linux.

> - the new zctl is very nice. i like the ability to run it as a
little
> shell and i can view all configuration details. however, using
"set"
> always fails with the following traceback::

Argh.  I need to finish that or remove it.  You had the right idea
though... ;-)

> - calling ./zctl start seems to expose a bug in zope itself::
<snip>
> the location where i had this set up was /tmp/zopeinstance. /tmp
is
> actually a symbolic link pointing to /private/tmp.
>

You had this bug before.  Get a real OS. ;-)  Actually, seriously,
I'll try to reproduce it.

Thanks for testing it out!

- C