[Zope] Upgrading to 2.6.0 on SuSE 7.3

[Dieter Maurer]

Michael Long wrote at 2003-2-7 14:41 -0500:
 > You will have much better success installing zope from the tarball on
 > SuSE. You will also be required to install python 2.1.3. This is not
 > optional as zope 2.6.x will crash with python 2.1.2. You will find it
 > best to install python 2.1.3 and zope 2.6.x in new directories leaving
 > your current insallation alone so that you can go back to your original
 > configuration in the event something goes wrong during you migration.

Furthermore, I suggest, you compile your Python from source.
I found out that the self compiled Python was more than 50 percent
faster than that delivered with SuSE 7.3.


Dieter