[Zope-dev] Zope Binary Release Changes for Zope 2.6

[Matthew T. Kromer]

Zope is currently released in three binary formats:

    Windows - i386

     Solaris 2.6 - SPARC

     Linux RH 5.2 - i386

All binary releases come with python 2.1.3, built without large file 
support.

We are proposing to change the binary distributions to newer releases, 
at least on the Solaris and Linux platforms.  

The new Solaris binary would be Solaris 2.8.

The new Linux binary would be RedHat 7.2 based (i.e. glibc 2.1).

It is very likely that the supplied Pythons would be built with large 
file support *enabled* for these platform, unless some unforseen 
compatibility issue arose.

If there are requirements for keeping the binary distributions based on 
the older software, we need to understand these requirements.  Please 
follow up with this thread on the zope-dev@zope.org list if you wish to 
participate.

-- 
Matt Kromer
Zope Corporation  http://www.zope.com/