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

Chris McDonough chrism@zope.com
17 Apr 2003 09:35:10 -0400


On Wed, 2003-04-16 at 15:32, Dieter Maurer wrote:
> Chris McDonough wrote at 2003-4-16 10:25 -0400:
>  > ...
>  > 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,
> 
> Personnaly, I do not like RPM.
> 
>   It often wants to install at places where I do not want the
>   installation.
> 
>   I much prefer "tar" balls (but I use the source distribution
>   anyway).

Hi Dieter,

Yup.  I'd rather install from source too.

I'm interested in hearing from people who you think we should continue
to create binary tarball distributions for Linux.  It doesn't sound like
you use the binary Zope distro for Linux, or do you?

- C