Re: RPMs require RPMs?

Simon Eisenmann <simon-4x/[email protected]>
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Jim Roepcke wrote:
| What's wrong with including a python installation with the Plone
| package?  The Mac and Windows installers do it...
|
| The whole "Easy to install" feature falls on its face when you hit this
| RPM dependency nonsense.

In general including python inside the plone rpm would be 100% more work
to provide plone rpms. I even say this will complicate the whole thing
even more since (at least if whole python isnt compiled statically).

The rpm dependency nonsense is required to be sure the different
components work together. I will provide howtos for old distributions
like redhat 9 which currently provide no upgrade path to python 2.3.3
how one can update his/her vanilla installation. This is the only way to
have sane rpm plone rpms.

Other way would be to create a binary all statically linked linux
installer (similar to the win/osx installers) which will then run on any
linux platform. This would be the "Easy to install" feature.

Installing via rpm though means dependencies. And the only one is python
2.3.3 installed from rpm (which is not very much i think).

Seems like all my redhat 9 installations are updated so far that
python2.3.3 from python.org installes smoothly. If its too complex to
make this working i will provide python2.3.3 rpms for rh9 as well since
redhat wont do this.

Cheers,
~ Simon


|> And who knows how many things libstdc++ will need...
|>
|> Argh! Surely someone along the way of testing the Plone 2.0 beta
|> releases installed this on RH9.

We will see .. all my redhats are updates quite a bit :). I am currently
installing a vanilla one inside a vmware .. so expect a howto tomorrow.


cheers,
~ Simon


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