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

[Florent Guillaume]

Tres Seaver wrote:
> 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'.

I agree with Tres and others. -1 on removing ./configure and the 
Makefile. It's expected by all sysadmins.

And if setup.py works, then the Makefile should be just a few lines 
invoking it, so it's no real burden.

Florent

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