[Zope-dev] compiling Zope 2.4.1 on Mac OS 10.1

[Mitchell L Model]

False alarm for Python2.2a4.  It does work

It seems I was either hallucinating or had screwed something up. 
After discussions with Guido, after which I understood a lot better 
what was supposed to be happening and why, I started over, and this 
time it worked.  With the updates for OS 10.1 in Python 2.2a4, all I 
had to do to make both Python and Zope was:

     	cd Python2.2a4
	configure --with-suffix=.exe
	make
	sudo make install

	cd Zope
	python wo_pcgi.py

That's all.  Just that one configure flag, and no global variables 
set.  Very, very nice.  What a delight to have a just released MacOS 
treated with respect by multi-platform software!

By the way, Guido said that the Makefile.pre.in mechanism installed 
in python2.2/lib/config is for a deprecated third-party build 
mechanism, replaced by distutils.  He suggests that Zope should 
maybeswitch to distutils.


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     --- Mitchell