Zope and Python 2.1

[Magnus Lie Hetland]

I just wondered... Has anyone been able to use Zope
and Python 2.1 together out of the box? (Including
possibly compiling them both out of the box,
without any arcane editing of setup files etc.)

I get Python to work fine, but Zope seems to insist
on looking for a Makefile.pre.in which isn't there...
And the binary version has too old a version
on the C API so I get a ton of warnings...

It seems that Zope doesn't even support Python 2.0
"officially" yet; the installation instructions
state that you should have Python 1.5.2. I hoped
that meant "1.5.2 or newer"... But anyway, I would
have thought that a basic running distribution
should be possible?

(The binary version seems to _work_ with 2.1...
But all the warnings make me a bit worried ;)

My objective is to make a simple procedure for
installing python 2.1 and ZODB so that
newbies (or almost-newbies) can follow it.

Any insights? Am I missing something obvious?
Should I just forget about the warnings?

All help greatly appreciated.

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  Magnus Lie Hetland         http://www.hetland.org

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