[Zope-dev] Re: Windows builds

2005-08-17 Thread Florian Schulze

On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 13:14:50 +0200, Christian Theune [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


Hi,

I announced myself stepping back from doing the windows builds some
while ago. Although nobody stepped up in taking this task, I'll make a
hard cut right now.

I'm preparing the 2.8.1 builds right now and those will definitely be
the last windows builds prepared by me.

Two reasons for the stepping back: time constraints from my side and
technical unability to safely create the windows builds.

Cheers,
Christian




Many thanks for all your work!

Regards,
Florian Schulze

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Re: [Zope-dev] Re: Windows Builds

2005-06-30 Thread Tim Peters
[Tim Peters]
 Anyone else run on Windows routinely who's eager for glory?  As
 Christian learned the hard way, it doesn't really work if running on
 Windows is an occasional afterthought in your daily life.
 
[Andy McKay]
 Mark Hammond and I will take a look at this and see if we can help.

Cool!  Last I saw, Andreas was planning to release Zope 2.7.7b1 this
Sunday (3 July), if you want some practice wink.

I'm pretty sure Mark already understands the Zope Windows-installer
build process about as well as anyone.  If not, I'm happy to help. 
For someone who runs on Windows routinely, the machinery usually works
smoothly.  It can be a bear when it doesn't.

One predictable problem is that Zope's setup.py gets out of date over
time, because people run Zope tests from CVS or SVN checkouts in
place, and the repackaging done by setup.py for an installation never
gets tested that way.  It's broken then for all platforms, but
typically whoever builds the WIndows installer is the first to
_notice_ it.  For a micro release (like 2.7.6 - 2.7.7) a problem
there is unlikely.
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[Zope-dev] Re: Windows Builds

2005-06-13 Thread Tim Peters
[Christian Theune]
 it looks like in principle the windows building mechanism got a bit
 better in the last time. Unfortunately I'm extremely busy and couldn't
 follow all the changes that are required on my building site, so I'm
 technically currently not able to compile the release for 2.8 final.

Thanks for trying!  I built the 2.8 Windows installer yesterday, so
there's nothing left to do here for 2.8 final.

 If Tim (or someone else) is able (regarding time and technical
 abilities) and willing to care for the Windows builds in future, I'd
 like to step back from the job of creating the Windows builds. I'm not
 using Windows on a daily basis and it is very time consuming to keep a
 working building environment around when something changes.

I updated the WinBuilders README.txt today, with what I hope are
clearer instructions.  I didn't need to change anything on my box to
get it to work, the only snag was that the 2.8 tag was made with
zope.mk containing a wrong name for the Linux tarball (it was missing
the -final part).

Still, this is much easier if you run on Windows routinely.  Then you,
e.g., probably have a functioning Cygwin, a close-to-current native
Windows checkout of Zope, and don't scratch your head over DOS box
behavior.

I could only do this yesterday because it was a weekend and I had the
spare time.  It's not part of my job, and I have more things competing
for spare time already than I can handle, so I can't volunteer to
take this over.

Anyone else run on Windows routinely who's eager for glory?  As
Christian learned the hard way, it doesn't really work if running on
Windows is an occasional afterthought in your daily life.
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