[Zope] Re: which operating system quandry

[Rob Miller]

David Bear wrote:
> I know it has been asked many times which os is best for zope, I have
> yet to see a 'system administration perspective' in the discussion. By
> this I mean which os seems to have the most worry free administration
> of a zope instances. I have installed zope on both FreeBSD and various
> linucies and here is what I have observed:
> 
> 1) Freebsd ports collection is an easy way to install zope -- the
> ports maintainer takes care of making the build files to handle all the
> zope dependencies including python versions, libraries, etc. However,
> I have yet to use portupgrade to apply security patches to zope
> instances running on freebsd. Does anyone know of using cvsupdate for
> getting security patches works over the ports collection of zope
> smoothly?
> 
> 2) I've run zope on Red Hat and Suse linux. In both cases I found that
> I needed to install a different version of python than the one
> packaged with the distro becuase Zope had specific dependencies for
> new versions python. Applying patches to zope is manual. It has always been very
> inconvenient to build python and PIL in a separate run instances for
> zope. This seems like a major pain in the ...

i've been most happy w/ debian or ubuntu, and have also had good luck w/ 
gentoo.  in each case, i use python (as well as nearly all python 
dependencies, e.g. PIL) from the distribution, but then build Zope itself from 
source, either a checkout or a tarball.

-r