Due to the installation and configuration changes made on the current Zope HEAD (soon to be Zope 2.7), ZC's legacy Windows packaging/installation strategy won't work. It won't work because various paths have been changed around, the z2.py script no longer exists, and an instance home needs to be created during installation (or after). I'm wondering if anyone is interested in helping (particularly those who have an interest in keeping Zope running and easily installable under Windows) Here is the current state of things: Currently, Zope builds under Windows 9X/2k/XP with VC++ 6.0 installed using the following set of commands:
configure.bat nmake build nmake install
This will install a software home into c:\Zope27. Running "python c:\Zope27\bin\makeinstance" will create an instance home. Some work has gone into making Zope service registration possible via the script in lib/python/Zope/Startup/nt/NTService.py. This file was carried over from the now-defunt chrism-install-branch and probably no longer works due to filename changes. What needs to be done: - Use an existing installer-packager program (ala InnoSetup) to a graphical Zope install for Windows. The graphical Zope install for Windows should: - Install a minimal Python (2.2.3, stripped down of all unnecessary stuff besides what's required to run Zope to ensure that the Zope installer archive isn't too large (> 8MB is too large)) - Offer to install an instance home to the place of the installer's choosing. - If installing on a Windows OS that support services, offer to install a service that will control the instance. - Allow people to create further instance homes from an existing software home and optionally register the commands that control the instance as a service (this doesn't need to be plugged in to the graphical installer). I have spent some time attempting to package Zope+Python for Windows using InnoSetup but I haven't gotten very far. I've also put some work into a makefile that builds a customized Python on windows with zlib, win32all, and expat support and then builds Zope with the resulting Python. Anybody else interested? - C