David Bear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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,
Actually I must say that I tried the Zope 2.8 Port a while ago and this was incorrectly trying to use the wrong Python Version 2.4.x. I mailed the maintainer and he wrote that he would fix it. Looking at http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=zope&stype=all I can see that the Zope 2.8.8 Port still references to Python 2.4 - so it got updated but it is still using the *wrong* Python version. :( And I would not dare to update my Zope using the FreeBSD Port System, since I had some bad experiences with this regarding other Applications. But that strongly depends on the quality of the Port itself. > 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 Quite funny, because RedHat and Suse do exactly the same as I have noticed with FreeBSD. So how come, that you had a different experience. Which Zope and Python Versions did you install? Zope Packages in Debian and Ubuntu do work nicely although I would also recommend to at least install Zope from source. > inconvenient to build python and PIL in a separate run instances for > zope. This seems like a major pain in the ... However this approach gives you more flexibility, since you can update Python and Zope at the moment that *you* want to and you can ensure that Security Updates do not break something in your Zope instance (which however has never happened to me, but you never know...). > 4) I am very interested to know how others manage zope sites. Are > there any best practices? Are there any linux distributions that are > more kind to zope than others -- meaning they don't have dependencies > on old python versions, or they have a very good patch system (debian > apt updates for zope??) Debian and Ubuntu, as I mentioned before, play quite well with Zope. Much better than FreeBSD from my experience, but as always ymmv. ;) Regards Maik _______________________________________________ Zope maillist - [email protected] http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )
