On 5/30/07, Paul Carduner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I believe there is currently no support for running schooltool, and certainly not CanDo on windows. I personally wouldn't know where to begin in making it work on windows - I imagine handling dependencies could get quite tricky. I'm also pretty sure there are zero plans to support windows in the future. If you use Ubuntu though, we are all ears!
I wouldn't say there are no plans to support Windows EVER. There is no particular reason to think that the current source tree couldn't be cajoled into running on Windows with a moderate amount of effort. This isn't a situation where we literally have a native Linux application that could only run on Windows with significant re-writing. In theory, SchoolTool should run without too much effort on any platform that Python runs on (and, I guess, libxml2), including Windows and Mac OS X. Also, in theory, eggs packaging (which is coming along) should make this easy on Windows, as that should handle the dependencies on Windows just as it does on Linux. We simply have limited resources and, in particular, nobody with expertise in setting up *production* Zope 3 servers on Windows. I'm pretty certain somebody somewhere runs Zope 3 servers on Windows, and last time I checked there was some code in the Zope 3 source code which more or less worked, but if it stopped working, I don't know if anyone here could tell you why. The problem is that for an application like SchoolTool, being able to run the server from a terminal isn't enough and can be misleading if people think they're getting a finished server. You need to make sure it works correctly and reliably as a Windows Service to actually use it in production. --Tom _______________________________________________ Schooltool mailing list [email protected] http://lists.schooltool.org/mailman/listinfo/schooltool
