On Thursday 01 November 2007 06:18:18 Andreas Jung wrote: > --On 31. Oktober 2007 22:00:46 -0700 Alexander Limi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 21:29:36 -0700, Andreas Jung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> The recommendation is still "System python is evil, evil, evil" (quoting > >> Jim). > > > > Sure, but if you ever want to be able to tell users to do: > > > > easy_install plone > > Would be fine but as long as several distros contain brain-dead or > castrated Python installations there is little we can do - even if we would > support > Python 2.5.
I always wondered -- I never had any trouble with the system Pythons, or at least not a problem that I could attribute to a system Python (Debian Stable and Ubuntu LTS) Its just so damn convenient if you have to maintain a few dozen VServers to manage the Pythons including add-on libraries exclusively via "apt-get" Which system Pythons do you think are brain dead, and why? Thanks, peter. > > to get their Plone site, it's a necessary evil evil evil. ;) > > > > > > > > > > We generally encourage not to use the system Python in everything we ship > > (Windows, Mac and Unified installers all ship their own Python) — but I > > really hope we won't be stuck with Python 2.4 after the world has moved > > on to Python 2.5 and 2.6. > > Bring the word to the Python packagers. > > > I agree that for proper deployments, you shouldn't use the system Python, > > but there's the case of letting people get started with Plone easily from > > their Ubuntu or Mac OS X (Leopard ships with Python 2.5 and easy_install > > by default) — we should be able to let them do that too. > > See above. Stepping forward with Python 2.5/2.6 support would be fine but > it basically does not solve the problem that system python installation are > often broken. Installation a Python from the sources is usually much more > faster than trying to figure out why a system python is broken once more. _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - Zope-Dev@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )
