[Zope] Zope on the Mac

[Andreas Kostyrka]

On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, Paul Everitt wrote:

> 
> Jimmie Houchin wrote:
> > I have all the tools to do it, CodeWarrior Pro 4, but do not have the
> > knowledge/skill.
> 
> Hey, we have neither the tools nor the Mac skill.  :^)
> 
> Of course, if you'll just put LinuxPPC on that Mac of yours...
>  
> > I am interested in developing on my Mac, deployment will be thru a webhost
> > probably on Linux.
> 
> I'd love to see Zope on the Mac.  I don't particularly see why it should
> be inconceivable, being mostly Python.
>  
> >     i=os.system(command)
> > AttributeError: system
> 
> Oh come on, MacPython doesn't have os.system?!!
>  
> > Problem 2: (This maybe normal, I don't know.)
> > I also saw this line which looked strange:
> > Compiling Hard Disk:Applications:Programming:Python
> > 1.5.1:Zope-1.9.0-src:lib:python:Products:ZGadflyDA:gadfly:sqlsem.py ...
> > no mem for next token
> > Sorry: MemoryError:
> 
> Nice.
That one is probably easy to solve. As Macs use mostly static
preallocation of memory, just increase the memory allocation of python.
Probably dramatically, as mentioned in another post, Zope might easily
grow to 18MB or so :)

> > Problem 3:
> > When I attempt to run serve.py I get this error:
> > Traceback (innermost last):
> > ...
> >   File "Hard Disk:Applications:Programming:Python
> > 1.5.1:Zope-1.9.0-src:lib:python:Globals.py", line 105, in ?
> >     import Acquisition
> > ImportError: No module named Acquisition
You need to compile the Acquisition module.
> 
> Nice, part 2.
>  
> > Any ideas, help?
> 
> Needless to say, someone that knows C on the Mac has to get involved.
At least someone that knows the C compilation environments on a Mac.

Andreas
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