[Michael Haubenwallner] >> I have put up a page of questions regarding the installation process at >> http://zopewiki.org/Zope3OnWindowsInstaller to help writing down some >> answers and to create a Howto for windows users.
[Stephan Richter] > It would be much better to put such documentation on our Wiki, since it will > got more exposure there. You also probably want to communicate with Tim on > how to improve the situation. -1 on the last suggestion <0.1 wink>. I build the Zope3 Windows installer because nobody else will do it (and if you disagree with that statement, _you_ build it from now on ;-)). I wasn't involved in creating it, and I don't even know how it works, beyond that it's a vanilla distutils-based installer. The text I put on: http://dev.zope.org/Zope3/ZopeWindowsRelease came from trial-and-error reverse-engineering, not from an intimate understanding of the Zope3-on-Windows vision. Because it's a standard distutils installer, and because distutils doesn't really aim at applications (let alone applications on Windows), there is no support for things like program groups or auto-install of Windows Services. The only hope for stuff like that is for someone to write MS-specific code to run from a post-installation script (which script distutils will run for you, if it's set up right) -- or move back to a wholly separate Windows-specific installer process (as Zope2 uses). The latter is high maintenance, and given how few "Windows people" contribute to Zope, unlikely to happen. The crushing advantage of a distutils-based installer is that some other project (namely, the Python project) does the hard work. I'll gladly answer any questions about what I wrote on the Wiki page above, but I can't volunteer more than that. If I did have time to work on it, I think I'd write a small InnoSetup script to install program groups (etc -- this is very hard to do correctly writing to the raw Windows API; that's why programs like InnoSetup are so popular), and run _that_ from the distutils post-install script. There would surely be lots of problems with that approach too. _______________________________________________ Zope3-dev mailing list Zope3-dev@zope.org Unsub: http://mail.zope.org/mailman/options/zope3-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com