[Zope] Production Advice

[robert rottermann]

Jerome R. Westrick wrote:
> SuSE is reknown for delivering over 2000 programs preconfigured.
> It does not constantly update theese to the latest version.
> 
> So I would expect that you would not have the same version of Zope
> delivered via SuSE as the one you downloaded and installed yourself on
> windows.
> 
> I would:
> 1) install Zope from SuSE cd's.
NO!
Do not do that!

Install both Python and and Zope from Source

It is dead easy and done in a coupple of minutes.

Otherwise you do not know what you have.
And you can not use Zope V2.7x great configuration policies.

I do run Zope on a couple of Suse boxes (8.1-9.1). First I did Jerry 
proposes. However installing from the sources is far easier.

Robert

> 2) download and update that with the same version as your developement.
> 
> I've been using the SuSE delivered version in production for years.
> It's a bit old, but, I didn't really need the latest and greaatest, just
> rock solid stability.  And that SuSE has provided for me.
> 
> Obviously, I'm a SuSE fan.
> 
> Jerry
> 
> On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 23:44, Jonathan Cyr wrote:
> 
>>Greetings All,
>>
>>After a long dev cycle, I'm putting a Zope web app into production
>>shortly... and need some advice.
>>
>>What is a good daily backup strategy with Zope 2.71?
>>
>>I'll be running ZEO, and only use three add-on products, Formulator,
>>VarImage and PIL.  My application consists of regular items in the ZODB,
>>two python Products, and a half-dozen ZClasses
>>
>>Right now, I'm developing on a WinXP machine, and am considering SuSE
>>9.1 for my spec, any experiences, good or bad?... YAST2-installed or
>>manually?
>>
>>All advice would be helpful as I weigh my options,
>>
>>-Jon Cyr
>>cyrj at cyr.info
>>
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