[Zope3-dev] Some Z3 thoughts

[Lennart Regebro]

Fred Drake wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 17:47:43 +0200, Lennart Regebro <regebro at nuxeo.com> wrote:
> 
>>Sorry, in the installation. I like the Zope2 way of having a separate
>>Products where you put all the third-party stuff, but there doesn't seem
>>to be anything like that for Zope3.
> 
> 
> You should always run an installed Zope using an "instance", which is
> created using $prefix/bin/mkzopeinstance.  Inside the instance is a
> directory lib/python/, which is intended as a place to install
> additional Python packages specific to that instance.

OK, that works. I can note that I have totally failed to install Zope3 
from any kind of distribution so far. The Windows one because I could 
not figure out how to make an instance. ;)

The source worked fine, though, but I didn't do instances.