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

[Andreas Jung]

--On 4. November 2005 11:27:10 -0500 Jim Fulton <jim at zope.com> wrote:
> Most people who download Zope 2 are not Python programmers. Many of them
> become Python programmers later.  I think this is a big part of Zope 2's
> value proposition that we haven't matched in Zope 3 yet.
>
> Having said that, I don't really like the configure/make farce myself.
> 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. :)
>

Unless you have time enough I would keep it :-) From my experience using 
configure was never a problem - neither for newbies nor advanced Zope 
users. People unable to run "configure; make" are also likely unable to run 
any other kind of command to perform the same task.

-aj
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