[Zope3-dev] Re: System python for *development*? (Was: 3.3.0 tag broken by zc.catalog eggs?)

[Andreas Jung]

--On 27. Juni 2007 11:36:23 -0300 David Pratt <fairwinds at eastlink.ca> wrote:

> Hi. I've tended to use system python against some better advice, but use
> but leave it clean since I am using buildouts. This really has had more
> to do with the convenience of using the system package tools for
> upgrading such as FreeBSD ports system. I've also been experimenting with
> CentOS and Fedora Core - so here yum comes into play.
>
> I think the best advice I have got from the discussion seems to be using
> a hand compliled python. I am almost at a point of thinking perhaps it my
> be best to use cmmi recipe for most system software on a stripped down
> server. I already need to patch a compiler and lxml will also only run on
> most up-to-date xml libraries so building these seems to make sense to
> make sure it does not choke.
>

...as Jim taught the audience during his Buildout tutorial some weeks
ago in Potsdam: """System Python is EVIL, EVIL, EVIL"""

Andreas
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