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Hi, my name is Tom Lazar and I'm a Plone and Zope developer based in Berlin, Germany and this is my personal and professional (no big difference, really...) website.
 

Leopard comes with Zope (sort of)

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Wow, not only does Leopard come with Ruby on Rails pre-installed, but there are also (parts) of zope bundled.

Take a look at this terminal session I just had, after IRC user martior mentioned on #plone, that Leopard contains some zope files in System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/ 2.5/Extras/lib/python/. And sure enough:

Last login: Fri Oct 26 18:58:58 on ttys004
tomster@Cassady:~# python2.5
Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Oct  5 2007, 21:08:09) 
[GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5465)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import zope.interface
>>>

Apple even mentions Zope on their Mac OS X Server feature list. I can't find any zope related executables, though, and don't have the time to dig any deeper just now. But I thought, I'd spread the word anyway. Feel free to investigate yourself and report back. Or just pipe in with your opinion: is this big? What are the possible implications?