http://linuxgazette.com/issue57/nielsen2.html
has a great example of how to use Zope. Apache. and Python together.
mod_snake and such are available pretty easily. The author of the article
has his own web site at http://www.tcu-inc.com and is gainfully self-employed
as a programmer in this very same area.
Civileme
On Saturday 13 January 2001 14:28, you wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've been interested in Zope for a while, it seems like a promissing
> application platform... Mandrake provides Zope packages.
>
> Here are my observations about Zope (please correct me if I'm wrong):
>
> 1) The Zope version in the 7.2 updates is newer than the Zope version in
> cooker;
> 2) Zope seems to require python 1.5, the Zope package in cooker doesn't
> compile due to this --> mymath.h seems to be needed, see:
> http://d10179.upc-d.chello.nl/build/cooker/alpha/problem/Zope-2.1.6-4mdk.sr
>c.rpm.txt. The 2.2.4 package from the 7.2 updates produces similar results
> when rebuilt;
> 3) The latest release of Zope is 2.2.5 (http://www.zope.org/);
> 4) Configuring Zope to make it work with an other webserver (let's say:
> apache) requires quite some magick (I've found out that I'm too stupid
> for it, as I gave up the last time I tried). Hints on how todo this
> point to serveral URL's, documentation etc. It should be possible to
> make this easier --> make it work out-of-the-box;
> 5) Zope.org only delivers a tgz file, not RPM's. The Zope src.rpm's seem
> to be originating from: http://starship.python.net/crew/jrush/Zope/
> (correct me if I'm wrong);
> 6) Is anybody actually using this stuff? Please speak up!!
> 7) There are tonnes of Zope applications out there which (when packaged)
> could make building a nice ASP site trivial;
> 8) Maintaining this package must be hell;
>
> So: what's the future like for the Mandrake Zope packages?
>
> For cooker item #2 is a show-stopper for Zope. If it can't compile / run
> on python 2.0 then we have a problem.
>
> I'd like to update the package to 2.2.5 and make the install a bit
> user-friendlier (I've got some idea's about this --> need to discuss it
> with JM).
>
> Stefan
