Get rid of configure/make? (was Re: [Zope-dev] Re: SVN:
Zope/trunk/ Merge philikon-zope32-integration branch. Basically,
this branch entails:)
Andreas Jung
lists at andreas-jung.com
Sat Nov 5 07:36:03 EST 2005
--On 4. November 2005 11:27:10 -0500 Jim Fulton <jim at zope.com> wrote:
> Most people who download Zope 2 are not Python programmers. Many of them
> become Python programmers later. I think this is a big part of Zope 2's
> value proposition that we haven't matched in Zope 3 yet.
>
> Having said that, I don't really like the configure/make farce myself.
> I'd be happy to get rid of it. I'm also happy to defer to the vocal
> majority. Maybe it's worth revisiting this, which is why the provocative
> subject. :)
>
Unless you have time enough I would keep it :-) From my experience using
configure was never a problem - neither for newbies nor advanced Zope
users. People unable to run "configure; make" are also likely unable to run
any other kind of command to perform the same task.
-aj
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