[ZWeb] "generic UNIX-like" and OS X

[Tim Keating]

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I can say with some certainty that OS X is _generally_ like other 
flavors of Un*x. The exception to the rule is anything GUI-like; OS X 
doesn't include an X server (ironically enough given the nomenclature), 
instead using its own windowing library which I believe is called 
Quartz. Or something like that.

> I just got a bug report from someone who tried to build ParsedXML on
> OS X; apparently he thought that a "generic UNIX-like" release should
> be usable there.  I don't know enough about OS X to say how reasonable
> this is (ZopeNewbies sure thinks that it is), but he's having
> compilation problems that don't happen on linux or solaris.  Assuming
> that OS X counts as Unix, I'd suggest that we should be able to choose
> from among a set of platforms for products released on zope.org, so
> that we can include OS X or not among Unices.

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I can say with some certainty that OS X is _generally_ like other
flavors of Un*x. The exception to the rule is anything GUI-like; OS X
doesn't include an X server (ironically enough given the
nomenclature), instead using its own windowing library which I believe
is called Quartz. Or something like that.

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build ParsedXML on

OS X; apparently he thought that a "generic UNIX-like" release should

be usable there.  I don't know enough about OS X to say how reasonable

this is (ZopeNewbies sure thinks that it is), but he's having

compilation problems that don't happen on linux or solaris.  Assuming

that OS X counts as Unix, I'd suggest that we should be able to choose

from among a set of platforms for products released on zope.org, so

that we can include OS X or not among Unices.

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