Hello, My server is running a Debian distribution and I try to install Zope/Plone on Lenny with the system adminstrator.
I am lost because there are 3 (at least) ways of installing Zope/Plone : 1) Install Debian packages (the solution preferred by the sysadmin) aptitude install plone3_site 2) Create a plone3_buildout and install it with zc.buildout 3) Using Plone Unified Installer which generates a different buildout and uses zc.buildout also I have successfully used Plone Unified Installer to test Plone 3.0 to Plone 3.1.5 but the sysadmin doesn't like this installer because it installs its own python. I saw on the faq that "Plone's "Unified Installer" installation script compiles its own copy of Python, because many systems do not include an appropriate version" (http://plone.org/documentation/faq/faqsection_view?section=Installing%20Plone) I have noted the advantages of buildout as exposed by Martin Aspeli : http://plone.org/documentation/tutorial/buildout/introduction But I found frightening drawbacks on weblion site : - Not all servers where you need to grab stuff from are stable or mirrored; if a distant server goes down, your buildout may not work. If someone moves or removes something you depended on, you may be unable to run your buildout at all. - When your buildout doesn't completely succeed, you are (sometimes?) left with a broken environment. (https://weblion.psu.edu/trac/weblion/wiki/BuildOut) What are your experience, your feeling about those different kind of installation (obsolete, unstable, essential ...) Thanks for your advice -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Which-installer-for-Plone-tp1515213p1515213.html Sent from the Installation, Setup, Upgrades mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Setup mailing list [email protected] http://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/setup
