[Zope] What causes the community to stall so often?

[Mike Renfro]

On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 06:01:45PM +0100, Ron Arts wrote:

> Basically what I miss is a clear path to take, many recommendations
> (PHP has lots of those) easy RPM installation, and a bag of working
> trustworthy Products (preferably distributed as RPM's).

I can at least talk a bit about the last couple of points. Debian has
packages for at least the following Zope-related items (in the testing
and unstable releases of Debian, at least):

psycopgda, popyda, zwiki, zshell, zpatterns, znavigator, zieve,
zcvsmixin, tinytable, renderable, parsedxml, mysqlda, loginmanager,
ldap, eventfolder, emarket, developers guide, cmf, book, squishdot

Though I can't say that every one is working and trustworthy, the ones
I've used have been. They're not RPM's, but since I don't run Redhat
boxes, that's not a drawback for me. The "stable" release of Debian
lags quite a bit behind current Zope, largely due to its lack of
Python 2.x. But the testing or unstable releases are probably of
comparable quality to any released RPM-based distribution.

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Mike Renfro  / R&D Engineer, Center for Manufacturing Research,
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