[Zope] which operating system quandry

[Jens Vagelpohl]

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On 30 Sep 2006, at 14:59, Perry Smith wrote:

> On Sep 30, 2006, at 3:10 AM, Andreas Jung wrote:
>> --On 29. September 2006 15:05:06 -0700 David Bear  
>> <David.Bear at asu.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> I know it has been asked many times which os is best for zope, I  
>>> have
>>> ...snip
>>> smoothly?
>>
>> Don't depend on packages. It is the safest way to use the source code
>> distributions. The sources code distro is recommended and  
>> supported. In case of packages you depend often on a single  
>> maintainer.
>
> I was wondering... I'm an old AIX guy and I never pick up pre- 
> compiled versions of software because the guy who compiles it often  
> has choices and his choices are not what I want.  So I just pick up  
> and compile what I want/need.  That practice has propagated over to  
> Mac OS X where I do most of my "home" work now.

There's a fine line between the amount of work involved and what it  
is that you want to end up "supporting" because you're the one who  
built it.

I would never want to build for example my own Apache or Squid, I  
rely on distribution-provided packages myself. This guarantees I'll  
be up to date most of the time (bug fixes etc) and updates happen  
without much effort on my side with the distribution's own update  
mechanisms. But Zope, Python and any add-ons to these two I would  
never take from the distribution and always compile it myself because  
for those I am willing and able to take over "support" myself. Like  
you, for those specific packages I don't trust any packagers' choices.

jens


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