Way to go Tim! You beat me to it. I was supposed to look at this soon but got back from vacation just this tuesday. I will make sure your installer gets testing and try to fix any eventual issues.
Thank you very much! On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 07:25:35PM -0500, Tim Peters wrote: | Most of the last two days I've been whacking on Zope 2.9 to build a | "Zope 2 style" Windows installer that bundles Python 2.4.2, and | cooperates with the new zpkgtools-created tarball layout. The | build-the-Windows-installer code got simpler as a result, but ... | | This work is being done on branch: | | //svn.zope.org/repos/main/Zope/branches/tim-2.9-windows-installer | | which was branched off the 2.9 tag. All changes on the branch are | under inst/WinBuilders/, so the idea is that when "this works", it can | be merged into the 2.9 tag as well as the trunk (the stuff under | WinBuilders/ isn't used for anything except building a Windows | installer, and on the 2.9 tag the WinBuilders/ part is wholly broken). | | It's in a state now where it's not obviously broken to my eyes, but I | have little experience running Zope2 so my eyes aren't reliable here. | People on Windows who want to try it, knowing in advance that it may | be broken in various ways, can download an experimental installer: | | Zope-Experimental-2.9.0-win32.exe | | from my member page: | | http://www.zope.org/Members/tim_one | | Please report problems to zope-dev, not to me directly. After | tomorrow, I'll be on vacation for 2 weeks, and won't be terribly | responsive :-) | | Note that I'm copying Sidnei in the hope that he can be persuaded to | take up the slack. If there are problems, they're likely to be in the | layout of the code: missing pieces, wrong directories, stuff like | that. The 2.9 tarball's install.py installed everything it was told | to install, and if there are problems there they're in Zope 2.9, not | in the chain of code building the Windows installer. Nevertheless, | the Windows installer could be taught to patch over them. And, of | course, the build-the-installer dance may introduce new errors of its | own. | | I hope it works for someone ;-) -- Sidnei da Silva Enfold Systems, LLC. http://enfoldsystems.com _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - Zope-Dev@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )