[Zope] What do we want in the way of Zope binary distributions?

[Chris McDonough]

Hi,

Thanks for the input.

Does anyone else have a desire to get Linux binaries in a tarball?

On Wed, 2003-04-16 at 16:32, J Cameron Cooper wrote:
> >
> >
> >I'd like to propose that ZC drops the "generic" Linux binary distribution
> >in favor of an RPM distribution that would be "guaranteed" to run on
> >the latest Red Hat release or the one before it, but might also work on
> >Mandrake, etc. 
> >
> I like the linux tarball a lot. With it you can get a Zope installation 
> running pretty much anywhere on the filesystem with great speed and 
> little hassle. (Not having to think about the system Python version, for 
> instance.) I may have strange use patterns, but I do that often enough 
> to notice.
> 
> I won't cry over it going away if the new source install is as simple as 
> described. But I sure find it a handy thing to have around (and have 
> never had any problems with it on any or the various and often strange 
> environments I've used it on.)
> 
>           --jcc
> 
> 
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