[Zope-dev] Re: Installer for Windows (quick question)

2006-11-10 Thread Christian Steinhauer
It´s very nice to hear that you take care of the windows builds. It would be nice to get an little description how to build an WZope, which tools are needed. So we can take a look how difficult it is to build an WZope. My windows zope configuration would be c:\zope\version\instance some

Re: [Zope-dev] Re: Installer for Windows (quick question)

2006-11-10 Thread Sidnei da Silva
Hi Christian(s)! I know most people dislike Program Files. I do too! But it's the closest we have to a 'standard' place for installing applications. As bad as it is, I too don't like Documents and Settings\username, but that's the closest we have from $HOME. As noted, you have the choice at

Re: [Zope-dev] Re: Installer for Windows (quick question)

2006-11-10 Thread Chris Withers
Sidnei da Silva wrote: Hi Christian(s)! I know most people dislike Program Files. I do too! But it's the closest we have to a 'standard' place for installing applications. It's not the 'standard'. To name a few examples, all of Python, Lotus Notes and, perhaps most tellingly, IIS and

Re: [Zope-dev] Re: Installer for Windows (quick question)

2006-11-10 Thread Sidnei da Silva
On 11/10/06, Chris Withers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sidnei da Silva wrote: Hi Christian(s)! I know most people dislike Program Files. I do too! But it's the closest we have to a 'standard' place for installing applications. It's not the 'standard'. To name a few examples, all of Python,

Re: [Zope-dev] Re: Installer for Windows (quick question)

2006-11-10 Thread Chris Withers
Sidnei da Silva wrote: Just as a note, those are pretty 'Advanced' applications. OTOH, Zope is too. So I buy your argument. Yay :-) What's your proposal for default Installation and Instance directories? I borrowed Guido's time machine an answered this already in another message ;-) -

Re: [Zope-dev] Re: Installer for Windows (quick question)

2006-11-10 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Chris Withers wrote: Sidnei da Silva wrote: Hi Christian(s)! I know most people dislike Program Files. I do too! But it's the closest we have to a 'standard' place for installing applications. It's not the 'standard'. To name a few examples, all of Python, Lotus Notes and,

Re: [Zope-dev] Re: Installer for Windows (quick question)

2006-11-10 Thread Chris Withers
Wichert Akkerman wrote: For their data, not for their binaries libraries. Actually no, all of their data, binaries and libraries live in their own top level directories... Chris -- Simplistix - Content Management, Zope Python Consulting - http://www.simplistix.co.uk

[Zope-dev] Re: Installer for Windows (quick question)

2006-11-09 Thread Duncan Booth
Sidnei da Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since I'm going to be building the installer for Windows I would like to quickly ask if anyone expects multiple Zope installs to live side-by-side. The existing installer atempted that but I don't believe it was very successful. I would like to know