Most of the last two days I've been whacking on Zope 2.9 to build a "Zope 2 style" Windows installer that bundles Python 2.4.2, and cooperates with the new zpkgtools-created tarball layout. The build-the-Windows-installer code got simpler as a result, but ... This work is being done on branch: //svn.zope.org/repos/main/Zope/branches/tim-2.9-windows-installer which was branched off the 2.9 tag. All changes on the branch are under inst/WinBuilders/, so the idea is that when "this works", it can be merged into the 2.9 tag as well as the trunk (the stuff under WinBuilders/ isn't used for anything except building a Windows installer, and on the 2.9 tag the WinBuilders/ part is wholly broken). It's in a state now where it's not obviously broken to my eyes, but I have little experience running Zope2 so my eyes aren't reliable here. People on Windows who want to try it, knowing in advance that it may be broken in various ways, can download an experimental installer: Zope-Experimental-2.9.0-win32.exe from my member page: http://www.zope.org/Members/tim_one Please report problems to zope-dev, not to me directly. After tomorrow, I'll be on vacation for 2 weeks, and won't be terribly responsive :-) Note that I'm copying Sidnei in the hope that he can be persuaded to take up the slack. If there are problems, they're likely to be in the layout of the code: missing pieces, wrong directories, stuff like that. The 2.9 tarball's install.py installed everything it was told to install, and if there are problems there they're in Zope 2.9, not in the chain of code building the Windows installer. Nevertheless, the Windows installer could be taught to patch over them. And, of course, the build-the-installer dance may introduce new errors of its own. I hope it works for someone ;-)