[Zope] What causes the community to stall so often?

[Dieter Maurer]

marc lindahl writes:
 > >> Most people want to install a binary package these days (in practice
 > >> this means RPM). When you look at the downloads, you see that the latest
 > >> RPM is not the most recent Zope version. Oops! I thought, is this a
 > >> serious product? (Please note: this first impression is important)
 > 
 > I totally agree on this.  That was my first impression - it could be cool,
 > but I have to be a guru to install it.  And that the RPMs are so out of
 > date.
 > 
 > There's no reason for this - if the spec file is maintained, you could
 > automatically generate an rpm every time you tar up the release.  A good
 > spec file will also take care of dependencies, and defaults like pcgi or
 > whatever, and also do nice stuff like put a startup script in init.d or
 > whatever.
Do I hear a volunteer here?


Dieter