[Zope] Linux/Redhat advice : RPMs vs Src for Zope development ?

[Sam Gendler]

Jens Vagelpohl wrote:

> hi chas,
>
> from my own experience using RH 5.2, 6.0 and 6.1 i came up with a
> combination of
>
> - MySQL RPMs
> - Python 1.5.2 RPMs (these are now part of RH 6.1 out of the box btw)
> - Zope src.tgz
>
> oracle comes in its own installer format AFAIK so the question doesn't
> really apply. it is tricky whichever way you choose ;)
>
> i haven't used PostGreSQL yet so i can't say anything about it.
>
> one warning: it seems that the very latest MySQL doesn't play nice with the
> MySQL adapters, i have 3.22.23b and it works flawlessly using just ZMySQLDA
> without the additional MySQL adapter packages that seem to have cropped up
> lately.
>

I agree with everything above, except that I build python from source so that
I can include all of the features that I want.  As for adding things like the
MySQL code to python, I don't know about BSD, but linux lets you add them as a
dynamically loadable module, so there is no need to recompile the entire python
interpreter.  I generally prefer the control of compiling everything myself.
The one exception is with MySQL, since they recommend using the rpms, which are
compiled with every possible optimization.  Watch out, though as anything newer
than 3.22.25 doesn not work with the ZMySQLDA.  I know that you can find a .25
version of the rpms at linuxmandrake.com