[Zope] Zope and OS Pythons (Was:ANNOUNCE: Zope 2.6.3 Release andSecurity Update)

[Lennart Regebro]

From: "kosh" <kosh at aesaeion.com>
> Actually  I disagree. I run debian sid systems and I use the os python for
> zope. I have never had a problem with it and it saves me a huge ammount of
> headaches since any updates for security etc get automatically applied
when I
> do updates. I use the debian install of zope also so everything is in the
> dependency system.

That probably does work. However, on my Debian, I can't even run the Zope
setup on a source code distribution, because for some reason, the Debian
binary distribution of Python does not include distutils! Why? I don't know.
Can I fix it? Maybe, but I don't know how. Compiling python from the source
is trivial and works, so that's what I end up doing anyway.