Brian, to use a poor analogy, Zope 2.x is the city with lots of signposts and amenities developed by the community. Zope 3.x is the frontier town, and most of the basic infrastructure is there but without the bells and whistles or automated instance installer for Windows :)
For short term solution Zope 2.x + Five is probably the way to go, but in the longer term Zope 3.x is a more exciting but likely initially frustrating place to be. When I started with Zope 3 recently my experience was with Zope 2 and basic python scripts. I'm sticking primarily with Zope 2 but am spending more time learning the basics of Zope 3, but don't expect that I will do anything serious with it for another few months yet. _________________________ Brett Haydon -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Gibson Sent: Wednesday, 1 March 2006 7:36 AM To: Zope3-users@zope.org Subject: [Zope3-Users] windows installer I am trying to install 3.2.0 on Windows XP Service Pack 2 and I am using the Windows installer named "Zope-3.2.0.win32-py2.4.exe". I installed ActiveState's Python 2.4.2 first and the Windows Installer found it and compiled everything then it just said it was done with the post installation process and gave me a "Finish" button, it didn't ask to create an instance, create a Windows service, etc.... I was able to find in the README.TXT of the tgz package how to create an instance and how to start it but I would think the installer would do all that. The install doc I am reading is "The Zope Book 2.6" and on page 46 - 47 I am not seeing the same install dialogs. Is the installer failing at some point or should I be using a stable install from the 2.x branch instead of using version 3.2.0? The download page says that 3.2.0 is the stable version of the 3.x branch but I did notice in the welcome message for this mailing list it says "Note that Zope 3 is currently only intended for Python developers" which I am not...... Thanks _______________________________________________ Zope3-users mailing list Zope3-users@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope3-users _______________________________________________ Zope3-users mailing list Zope3-users@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope3-users