[Zope-dev] Re: [Zope] What do we want in the way of Zope binary distributions?

Chris McDonough chrism@zope.com
16 Apr 2003 14:00:52 -0400


FWIW, the installation and configuration process for 2.7 will be
different than others in the 2.X series, so you may end up maintaining
two significantly different build generators if you intend on "signing
up" to them for both 2.6 and 2.7/8/9, etc.  Just a heads-up.

On Wed, 2003-04-16 at 12:37, Dylan Reinhardt wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-04-16 at 07:37, Toby Dickenson wrote:
> > On Wednesday 16 April 2003 3:25 pm, Chris McDonough wrote:
> > 
> > > I'd like to propose that ZC drops the "generic" Linux binary distribution
> > > in favor of an RPM distribution that would be "guaranteed" to run on
> > > the latest Red Hat release or the one before it, but might also work on
> > > Mandrake, etc. 
> > 
> > I may volunteer for updating the gentoo ebuild.... Anyone else using gentoo 
> > linux here?
> 
> I am... putting some effort toward keeping the Zope ebuild current would
> be really helpful.  Last time I checked, it's only current to 2.6.0.  
> 
> Don't know much about making ebuilds, but I've been meaning to get good
> at it for a few months now... this would be as good a reason as any. 
> I'm willing to help, but probably not the best person to lead.  
> 
> Dylan
> 
> 
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