[Zope] Zope startup errors

[John Poltorak]

On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 09:12:56AM +0000, Chris Withers wrote:
> John Poltorak wrote:

> >>Chris - why are you on OS/2, btw?
> > 
> > I remember Lord Gates telling me, many years ago, that OS/2 was going to 
> > be the biggest program of all time and I believed him ;-)...
> > 
> > I guess I just stuck with it since I didn't want to be on the upgrade 
> > treadmill, didn't like viruses and wanted to be in control of what my 
> > computer was doing rather than having mysterious upgrades being 
> > auto-installed.
> 
> So go for Linux or MacOS X and end your pain on suffering. FWIW, I'm on Win2K, 
> don't have any autoupdating going on and don't use any M$ software apart from 
> Windows and Office, so don't have too many viri to contend with...

I actually like OS/2, and unlike Linux it has had threading built into it 
from day one and it works pretty well. Personally I would not be surprised 
if Zope running on OS/2 outperformed Zope running on Linux using the same 
hardware.

Besides that, more and more open source software is now buildable on OS/2 
so there is little point in moving away. In fact XFree86 4.4.0 became 
available for OS/2 before Linux, AFAIK.

Now it looks as though I can build Zope 2.7.0 straight from source without 
requiring any patches at all, so there is much less suffering involved 
than there used to be. As for virii, I am not aware of a single one which 
affects OS/2. 'Security through obscurity' is quite a useful motto ;-)...

 
> Chris
> 
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-- 
John