[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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