[Zope] Zope 2.7 and ZEO

[Bakhtiar A Hamid]

On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, [windows-1252] Tim Terlegård wrote:

> > > Those instructions was a little bit confusing,
> > 
> > if i may ask, what's confusing about the article?  maybe i can 
> > straighten something out.  also, that's not a real step by step
> > howto .. :P
> 
> You were not supposed to read that statement  ;-)
> 
> "make instance will emulate the zope2.x way of working, i.e no
>  INSTANCE_HOME"
> 
> Does that mean I should run it? A newbie doesn't know if it's
> good or bad to emulate zope2.x. I didn't do "make instance"
> and everything seems fine.

make instance will install in the zope source tree.  make install will 
install in another directory.  that's best, IMO.  easy upgrade later.

> 
> Ah, maybe the reason for the confusion is a mistake in the text.
> The first yellow square, should it say makezeoinstance instead
> of mkzopeinstance? Would make sense  :)

thanks for the heads up.  musta been real tired (excuses, excuses :))
> 
> What directory structure makes sense? I hade ZEO and Zope going
> into the same instance. That results in less directories. Should
> I put the instance directly in /path/to/zope? I would then get
> only one bin/ and one etc 

there's many ways of running zope.  i prefer using INSTANCE_HOME, for 
easier upgrades, test, etc...


> Tim
> 
> 
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