Thinking in GIS

Here are my notes for installing Zope and Plone from source in Ubuntu. I took this notes installing on 7.10 (Gutsy) but should work without problems for earlier Ubuntu versions, and for other Linux platforms-1- install libraries needed for build (build-essential) and Zope-2- download zope 2.10.5 and plone 3.0.4wget https://launchpad.net/plone/3.0/3.0.4/+download/Plone-3.0.4.tar.gzwget http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.10.5/Zope-2.10.5-final.tgz-3- unzip the downloaded filestar -xvzf Zope-2.10.5-final.tgztar -xvzf Plone-3.0.4.tar.gz-4- create the makefile and set the prefixcd Zope-2.10.5-finalway1:./configuregedit makefile and set prefix=/opt/Zope-2.10.5or way2 (simpler): ./configure --prefix=/opt/Zope-2.10.5-5- Install Zope (at the location set in prefix)sudo make install-6- create an user for zope not run as suggested: "Now run '/opt/Zope-2.10.5/bin/mkzopeinstance.py'" but create an...
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Cuyahoga is an impressive Open Source web site framework (and CMS) with many impressive features like:RDMBS indipendency via NhibernateEnterprise architecturePlug-in architectureDeployable, using Mono, to platforms different from Windows, like Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris, unlike other popular .NET CMSSearch engine based on dotLuceneFull ASP .NET 2.0 enginelogging system via log4net (the same logging engine in zigGIS)People willing to deeply dig in Cuyahoga may download the latest release (1.5.0) source code and this basic tutorial for developing Cuyahoga modules.The problem with this tutorial is that is a bit out of date (is based on VS 2003 and on a old release...
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I wanted to leave a comment in this Bill Dollin's post, but after that it came out to my mind to leave a trackback to it, and going with a my own post on this subject as far as I have several things to discuss about.In the OSS jungle, it looks there are in the last times more and more solutions and projects based on commercial closed-code software. For example zigGIS, the Open Source ArcGIS connector for PostGIS, in which I am involved, is by itself an OS project tied to proprietary frameworks (Microsoft and Esri). This is many times...
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