-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Sascha Ottolski wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 27. Oktober 2005 13:20 schrieb Jens Vagelpohl: > >>You just noted one more disadvantage yourself: The system Python is >>likely to be out of step with what Zope wants. Furthermore, updates >>to the system Python or to add-on packages might have unintended >>consequences for your Zope setup. > > > well, "might have" is one thing, really experiencing problems is quite > different...
It *has* happened to Real Zope Users (TM) in the past, and it *will* happen again. One "unintended consequence" of using /usr/bin/python on RHEL / Fedora boxen, for instance, is that they compile Python with UCS-4 unicode (four bytes for every unicode character!). This setting doesn't matter for short-lived scripts or GUI utils, and may even be superior. For a long-running, memory-intensive Python process, it is grossly nefficient. WRT maintenance of the system: while at ZC, I actually maintained a separate 'zc-python' RPM which installed itself in '/opt/zc'; all the Zope RPMs I maintained depended on 'zc-python' rather than 'python'. Users whose pagers / cell phones go off if Zope crashes (this is my definitino of "enterprise user", BTW) should install a separate Python. Non-enterprise users can likely get away without it. Tres. - -- =================================================================== Tres Seaver +1 202-558-7113 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Palladion Software "Excellence by Design" http://palladion.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDYPch+gerLs4ltQ4RAjBwAKDJVAl/igH7hnSeYNRzceXyC8qvHgCgkKIK 5zjZgfdq6bCnOPMuGxPqozc= =E9Fl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org 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 )