[Zope-dev] FreeBSD, Zope and Plone

[Casey Duncan]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Anthony Baxter" <anthony@interlink.com.au>
To: "Casey Duncan" <casey@zope.com>
Cc: "alan runyan" <runyaga@runyaga.com>; <zope-dev@zope.org>
Sent: Monday, September 16, 2002 8:05 PM
Subject: Re: [Zope-dev] FreeBSD, Zope and Plone


>
> >>> 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.

That is the option I intend to explore. FreeBSD's ports machinery makes this
painless and invisible to the end user.

-Casey