Hi, On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 13:40 -0200, Sidnei da Silva wrote:
On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 10:27:25AM -0500, Jim Fulton wrote: | >The installers do not require much Windows expertise. In fact, they | >require a lot of 'makefile' expertise right now, and some Inno Setup | >expertise, not much else. | | Sorry, Inno Setup is a windows installation builder. I consider this | windows expertise.
You don't have to know how to operate Inno Setup for building a installer though. It pretty much boils down to editing the makefiles to contain the proper version number and typing 'make'. I would consider that automated enough. What about adding a target that does this into the buildbot so we get nightly installers?
You have to know Inno. I took care for the Windows builds for a while and it was a large pain to get it started. I'm not a natural windows hacker, although I was developing on windows some years ago and know my way around. Additionally the whole cludge (was/is) very fragile so that new releases pretty reliably required tweaking the build environment. As Tim said one day: You need to work/develop on windows on a daily basis to be able to cut releases for it. I'd second this for any platform actually. Christian -- gocept gmbh & co. kg - forsterstraße 29 - 06112 halle/saale - germany www.gocept.com - ct@gocept.com - phone +49 345 122 9889 7 - fax +49 345 122 9889 1 - zope and plone consulting and development