[Zope-dev] Re: Get rid of configure/make? (was Re: Re: SVN: Zope/trunk/ Merge philikon-zope32-integration branch. Basically, this branch entails:)

[Tres Seaver]

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Tino Wildenhain wrote:
> Am Samstag, den 05.11.2005, 13:23 +0100 schrieb Lennart Regebro:
> 
>>On 11/4/05, Jim Fulton <jim at zope.com> wrote:
>>
>>>Having said that, I don't really like the configure/make farce myself.
>>
>>Farce?
>>
>>
>>>I'd be happy to get rid of it.  I'm also happy to defer to the vocal
>>>majority.  Maybe it's worth revisiting this, which is why the provocative
>>>subject. :)
>>
>>I read through this post and I don't grok what the suggested alternative is.
>>Could someone summarize?
> 
> 
> The usual setup.py from distutils to make it more pythonic.

distutils' support for applications, as opposed to libraries, is (still)
pathetic.  Sysadmins are the target audience for the installer, not
Python programmers;  './configure && make && sudo make install" is the
classic pattern for them (which is why we do Zope2 this way now).

- -1 to removing './configure'.

Tres.
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