Hello, Actually we have now the winbot. If it's not too hard to build the lxml windows egg, it could do that too.
Friday, September 10, 2010, 5:12:18 PM, you wrote: LR> I believe Sidnei is working on creating lxml windows releases. LR> Hopefully we'll have a Windows lxml 2.2.8 release in the next week or LR> so. http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.lxml.devel/5635 LR> Laurence LR> On 10 September 2010 15:01, Martin Aspeli LR> <optilude+li...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> On 10 September 2010 14:26, Hanno Schlichting <ha...@hannosch.eu> wrote: >>> >>> On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 3:17 PM, Martin Aspeli <optilude+li...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> > If we *are* going to use a convenience pin, then surely the ability to >>> > install on the world's most-used operating system has to be part of the >>> > convenience. ;-) >>> >>> That's a lame argument. Windows is almost irrelevant for the market we >>> are in - web server deployments. >> >> Erm, you think so? Maybe we should do a poll on how many Zope / Plone >> developers use Windows on the desktop. Or look at how many people download >> the Windows installer. You need a dev environment, not just deployment, and >> a lot of people are on Windows. >> >>> >>> Our own community is barely able to >>> keep up providing the most basic Windows support and ensuring tests >>> pass. As long as we don't have more community volunteers actually >>> caring about Windows support, I won't let it be an argument to >>> penalize the rest of the community. >> >> When the software breaks, people go elsewhere. I didn't say Windows support >> was easy, or any fun. But we have to decide: do we care about people who >> have made (or are forced to make) different technology choices than us, or >> do we tell them their platform is unsupported? >> >>> >>> > If we don't use it, we shouldn't pin it, IMHO. We found this problem >>> > because >>> > the Zope KGS was overriding another KGS where we had pinned lxml to >>> > 2.2.4. I >>> > don't think Zope has any business getting in the way of that. >>> >>> The KGS is a base KGS you can use. Nobody forces you to stick to it. >>> In fact for every single deployment of your own you will need to >>> extend it. I don't see a problem with the few people using Windows and >>> not installing compilers on their platforms to change one version pin. >> >> I think you're missing the point: >> >> - We shouldn't pin software we don't use. It may be well intentioned, but >> if we don't depend on it, we shouldn't take responsibility for it, or give >> the perception that we take that responsibility. >> >> - If we do depend on it, we need to make sure it works on the platforms we >> support. QA isn't something you do only when it's easy to do in your local >> dev sandbox. >> >> - If we suddenly no longer support Windows, we better have the guts to come >> out and say it, stop producing Windows eggs for Zope 2 stuff and explicitly >> state that people cannot and should not use Windows for Zope development. I >> hope that's not the case, though. ;) >> >> Martin >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Zope-Dev maillist - zope-...@zope.org >> https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev >> ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** >> (Related lists - >> https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce >> https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ) >> >> LR> _______________________________________________ LR> Zope-Dev maillist - Zope-Dev@zope.org LR> https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev LR> ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** LR> (Related lists - LR> https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce LR> https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ) -- Best regards, Adam GROSZER mailto:agros...@gmail.com -- Quote of the day: All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors. _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - Zope-Dev@zope.org https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )