[Zope] Zope 2.8 or 3.1?

[Dario Lopez-Kästen]

Jens Vagelpohl wrote:

>
> On 26 Oct 2005, at 21:43, HaraldFinnås wrote:
>
>> I've also seen comments that running Zope on RHEL/CentOS might not  
>> be wise. My test env. is using FC4, but I'm planning to install  
>> CenOS 4.2 on the production server. Unwise choice?
>
>
> I'd be curious to find out who says something like that. It's BS.  
> Zope runs perfectly fine on all RHEL-based distributions.
>
> The only issues you might ever run into would be problems with the  
> Python that comes with the OS. But then again if you run Zope in  
> production you should never ever use the system Python and build your  
> own instead. The system Python tends to be compiled with weird flags  
> on RH-based distros to suit their own needs for the many Python-based  
> scripts they have in the OS. Don't use it, build your own.


well, on larger shops like ours, the sysadms always want to know why we 
introduce Yet Another Non-Standard Component to the system setup that 
cannot be RPM'ed like the rest. And I am not talking across pythoin 
versions, but oin the same release series (ie. 2.3, etc)

I know it is more convenient to self.compile()  the python, but it is 
always hard to argue with the sysadms on this issue. Our current 
solution is to provide a precomipiled rpm with the pythons we want to use.

Why is that the standard os-distributed pythons do not work with zope? 
They seem to work with other python sw...

/dario - being curious...

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