[Zope] Zope 2.8 or 3.1?

[Einar Næss Jensen]

On 10/27/05, Sascha Ottolski <sascha.ottolski at gallileus.de> wrote:
>
> Am Donnerstag, 27. Oktober 2005 13:20 schrieb Jens Vagelpohl:
> > You just noted one more disadvantage yourself: The system Python is
> > likely to be out of step with what Zope wants. Furthermore, updates
> > to the system Python or to add-on packages might have unintended
> > consequences for your Zope setup.
>
> well, "might have" is one thing, really experiencing problems is quite
> different...
>


Well, I've had severe problems with zope based on an redhat-package,. This
was, however, back in 8.0 and 9.0 version of Redhat. Things may have
improved.
Basically the rpms we used were unstable (our site would crash on random
acts (or so it seemed to us)), also on a couple of occations installing
other rpms (not from redhat though), would break the python from redhat.
This and other bad experiences with redhat/rpms led to a policy with debian
and compiled python/zope. I've never looked back.
The decision of throwing out redhat and rpms may have been based on my lack
of knowledge or incompetence, but I will note that since switching to
source-based zope and python (three years or so) and debian we've never
experienced any problems that could not be solved within minutes.
Except one: We still have a POSKEY error in our Data.fs introduced with the
old rpm-based install. I've never managed to delete or locate the object,
but it doesn't seem to cause any trouble. So it stays. Just to remind me
never to use redhat or rpms.

Just my two cents.



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