[Zope] Zope on LinuxPPC--works fine

[Jeffrey Shell]

> Me neither (yet). ::sigh::
> 
> I like MOSXS as a working environment but it really *should* work  
> locally. Python 1.5.2 was so easy to compile.

Python was easy to compile statically (as I recall), but when I wanted
to use it with Zope I had to make it dynamically linked and there were
some gotchas that came up with the way I did it.  This was the biggest
problem I had to get around (seeing as how I don't know all that much
yet about dyld and bundles and frameworks, et al).  Once it was solved,
some of the Zope builder scripts had to be modified slightly, the
default Python/Modules/Makefile.pre.in had to be edited because it was
missing a much needed line that the normal Python Makefile had, and I
had to (probably wrongly) modify getpath.c (i believe that was the
module) as well.

MacOS X looks like it may be even less cooperative with Python 1.5.2's
configuration machinery since it's so new (but this should be fixed by
the next release of Python).

I need another whopping hard drive so I can have MacOS X Server back on
board, as well as good young Darwin.  Python and Zope _BOTH_ need to
find their way into the Darwin distribution.