[Zope] Production Advice

[Jonathan Cyr]

Thanks for the input...

Would there be any advantage to setting up the ZEO server by tarball, 
and setting up the multiple ZEO clients as YAST2 installed.  I haven't 
setup the new 2.7-based ZEO yet, only 2.6-based.

How stable is SuSE 9.1, new kernel right, as to Python & Zope, threads 
and such?  I read a post somewhere with concerns, with a 2.6 beta.

Any scripts for backup on the new 2.71 arrangement?

-Jon Cyr
cyrj at cyr.info

Jens Vagelpohl wrote:

>
> There are various problems with using a Zope setup that is included 
> with a Linux distribution:
>
> - They are almost always outdated
>
> - They employ their own policies as far as software layout is 
> concerned that might conflict or at least have nothing in common 
> anymore with a standard from-source install. This can become 
> problematic when you need to try and stitch a package in that is not 
> also pre-built for that specific setup.
>
> - As the never-ending questions about "I installed Zope RPM from XYZ 
> and now I cannot log in" it seems that these RPM setups, since they 
> can't insert the step to create the admin user during install like the 
> source version can, make it harder for  inexperienced Zope users
>
> - On the mailing lists users of such built-in packages are much more 
> likely to be greeted with silence or told to upgrade or install from 
> source if they encounter problems. No one wants to debug problems 
> potentially caused by packaging, and few people want to help with 
> outdated packages.
>
> IMHO what it amounts to is that it's *not* easier to use preconfigured 
> and pre-built packages. It is potentially way more frustrating.
>
> jens
>
>
>> On Sat, 2004-07-03 at 14:25, robert rottermann wrote:
>>
>>> 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
>>
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