[Christian Theune] ...
I have a compiled Zope 2.8a2 around here, but I'm not able to run the unit tests on it and I'm not willing to publish it therefore because I have the suspicion that this branch never has seen windows before except the one pass of unit tests before 2.8a1.
FYI, I usually run the Zope trunk tests once a day, on WinXP. None of this goes thru WinBuilders, though -- this is doing "test.py -vv --all" from the root of a trunk checkout immediately after "setup.py build_ext -i". The same two tests have been broken there since last October, but all other tests pass: http://www.zope.org/Collectors/Zope/1728 As recorded in the bug that points at, for related reasons an installed Zope 2.8 is probably unusable on Windows (I haven't tried this since last October -- don't see a point so long as the 1728 bug remains): http://www.zope.org/Collectors/Zope/1507