[Pythonmac-SIG] Zope et al

[Jeffrey P Shell]

on 10/21/99 8:16 AM, Jack Jansen at jack@oratrix.nl wrote:

> As far as I know Zope heavily depends on thread support, so for the moment it
> is impossible to implement under MacPython.

Doesn't Thread support in the MacOS continue to improve?  I would think that
it's especially part of Carbon.  What blocks Python threads for MacOS?

As far as Zope goes, we'd love to see an initiative to build it.  I
personally have had a hard enough time getting it to compile on MacOS X
Server, but that is mostly due to my lack of knowledge of the proper way of
compiling Python to do shared libraries in OpenStep.  (BTB, on Stepwise
(www.stepwise.com), they have a binary of Python 1.5.2.  No threads, and I
doubt it does shared library).  Doing it on Mac OS X DP1's unix-side didn't
work at all because Python wouldn't compile the way I wanted it to (none of
the configure scripts ever expected the 'uname' command to return "mac os"
:-)

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Jeffrey P Shell, jeffrey@Digicool.com
http://www.zope.org/