[Zope-dev] Re: Windows builds
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 ___ 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 )
Re: [Zope-dev] Re: Windows Builds
[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 It can be a bear when it doesn't. One predictable problem is that Zope's setup.py gets out of date over time, because people run Zope tests from CVS or SVN checkouts in place, and the repackaging done by setup.py for an installation never gets tested that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. ___ 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 )
[Zope-dev] Re: Windows Builds
[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. ___ 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 )