[Setup] Re: Will unified installer use already provided software
Raphael Ritz
r.ritz at biologie.hu-berlin.de
Fri Oct 26 19:55:28 UTC 2007
Steve McMahon wrote:
> Since the Unified Installer installs its own version of Plone, which
> does not interact with the system Plone, it needs all its own site
> packages. Thus, it installs its own copies of elementtree, PIL, and a
> few other items. These also do not interact with your system python.
>
read Python for Plone here ;-)
Raphael (sorry, just couldn't resist)
> browni wrote:
>> Is the Plone unified installer, when rectifying software requirements,
>> aware
>> of system-provided software, or does it assume that the installer-
>> provided
>> software will be used regardless? As an example, if the system
>> already had
>> ElementTree installed (rhel5, python elementtree 1.2.6-5.i386), would the
>> Plone installer use its ElementTree rather than that already present?
>>
>> Also, how can I find out what versions of a pre-req (ElementTree or
>> other)
>> Plone3.0 has been tested with?
>>
>> Thanks for any assistance.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>> Glen Browning
>
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