[Zope-dev] FreeBSD, Zope and Plone

[Anthony Baxter]

>>> Casey Duncan wrote
> In my experience, python crashes on FreeBSD are due to the default thread 
> stack size problem exclusively. I run Python/Zope with complex sites all the 
> time (not plone tho) and once patched appropriately it never crashes unless I
> cause it to.
> 
> There are two solutions to this IMHO:
> 
> 1. Release a bug fix in Python (hasn't happened yet, but it has been discussed 
> several times) 
> 2. Patch the FreeBSD python port. This is likely an excellent solution and one 
> which could also solve the large file support issue simulaneously.

The second seems (to me) like a much, much simpler alternative. Particularly
since it's only a bug that affects one platform. . . releasing a new version
of python 2.1 just for a freebsd fix seems way overkill.


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