[Zope] Re: Re: Poll: Zope and Suse Linux

[Tony Addyman]

Peter Bengtsson wrote:

>> 
>> >
>> > The only negative that I know of comes with SuSE 9.3 Pro. Zope is
>> > compiled with Python 2.4!
>> 
>> Why do these bastards ship Zope with an unsupported Python version...
>> unbelievable! Maybe a reason *not* to use Suse.
> 
> he he. I think the equivalent of using deb packages (or alike) to
> install and maintain your zope is like create and maintain a zclass
> project: you get started quickly but very soon you grow out of it and
> the ceiling can't be raised without breaking the roof.
> 
Does your technical expertise match your sense of humour? I have built
Python and Zope from source in the past, but that was always on a system
which had shipped with an earlier version of Python. In this case building
from source generates the following error when you start Zope. This was
python2.3.5 tar file from python.org and zope-2.7.5, from zope.org. All the
advice on the Web talks about removing old code, because DbTab is now
integrated. The error message was:

DBTab.ClassFactories.autoClassFactory could not be imported. Line 844 of
zope.conf.

Removing python-2.4 from the system is not an option. Too many thinks link
in to it.
Tony Addyman
-- 
Eur Ing A.M.Addyman, School of Computing, Science and Engineering
University of Salford, Salford, M5 4WT