On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 12:35:49PM -0500, Tim Peters wrote: | [Sidnei da Silva] | > Just noticed a checkin talking about the Windows Installer builder. I | > hope to find some time soon to take a look at that, since we now | > require Python 2.4 and Python 2.4 uses the 'Microsoft Installer'. I | > recall talking with Mark about it and he said it would take some time | > to fix the build process. | | I just asked Andreas (off-list) what his Windows plans were for 2.9 -- | for various reasons I assumed someone else was already looking at | this, but that assumption may be wrong (and given the lack of relevant | checkins recently, almost certainly wrong <frown>). | | WRT Python 2.4, I never found a sane way to just _extract_ files from | an .msi installer, so that part of the build process is dead meat now. | In other "bundle everything" Windows installers at Zope Corp (such as | for ZRS), I copy Python .pyd. .dll and .exe files from my own Python | 2.4.2 installation instead. These binary files are all the | build-Zope-installer process really needs from the Python Windows | installer; the rest (like .py and .h files) can be taken from a Python | tarball. You can avoid wrestling with .msi entirely this way. Just came to the same conclusion a few minutes ago. | Possible headache: Python 2.4.2 requires msvcr71.dll, which is a | Microsoft DLL (it's akin to msvcrt.dll for Visual Studio 6 -- it's the | C runtime for VC 7.1), and one for which the redistribution conditions | are unclear (at least to me). You can't assume that all Windows boxes | already have this DLL. Indeed. From reading around, seems like the saner thing is to make it a bold warning in the installer that the said dll is required instead of shipping it. | Another: I have no idea how the new zpkg-based build process will | work with a Zope2-style installer. A Zope3-style installer is | different in many ways (it's a "plain" distutils-based installer, and | requires that the end user get and install Python & pywin32 first). | Plan on pain-time here. That's something I can play with :) -- Sidnei da Silva Enfold Systems, LLC. http://enfoldsystems.com