<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><DIV>On May 17, 2005, at 5:17 PM, Tres Seaver wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Perhaps I conflated two memories.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>I'm pretty sure that *something* in</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">the Zope codebase requires zlib, but I take Tim's word for it that I</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">wrongly attributed that dependency to ZODB.</FONT></P></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV>At one point, our system administration staff commissioned machines in the barest of bare bones fashions, and zlib was one of the things that wasn't installed unless specifically requested. I have had also spent time building python and Zope just to have Zope complain about zlib on startup. There are at least a couple of places that I can think of on the Zope side that require zlib, the HTTP server needs it to handle "content-encoding: gzip" responses.</DIV></BODY></HTML>