Installer for Windows (quick question)
Since I'm going to be building the installer for Windows I would like to quickly ask if anyone expects multiple Zope installs to live side-by-side. The existing installer atempted that but I don't believe it was very successful. I would like to know if anyone has multiple Zope installations on Windows side-by-side and if they consider that important. -- Sidnei da Silva Enfold Systems http://enfoldsystems.com Fax +1 832 201 8856 Office +1 713 942 2377 Ext 214
Sidnei da Silva-2 wrote:
Since I'm going to be building the installer for Windows I would like to quickly ask if anyone expects multiple Zope installs to live side-by-side. The existing installer atempted that but I don't believe it was very successful.
I would like to know if anyone has multiple Zope installations on Windows side-by-side and if they consider that important.
I find it quite useful for testing e.g. with Plone 2.1 and 2.5 and 3.0, which require different Zope versions... I don't have an understanding of how hard it is to do, though - but I certainly have no idea how I'd build Zope myself on Windows and therefore manage my instances myself. I'd be happy if only the last installed one owned the *service*, if I could use runzope.bat on the others. Martin -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Installer-for-Windows-%28quick-question%29-tf2601515.h... Sent from the Zope - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
"Sidnei da Silva" <sidnei@enfoldsystems.com> wrote:
Since I'm going to be building the installer for Windows I would like to quickly ask if anyone expects multiple Zope installs to live side-by-side. The existing installer atempted that but I don't believe it was very successful.
I would like to know if anyone has multiple Zope installations on Windows side-by-side and if they consider that important.
Yes and yes. Same as Martin Aspeli's reasons: testing on multiple plone versions. I think the main thing is to be sure that the installation doesn't add any zope specific folders to PythonPath in the registry. The Plone installation for example adds (or added) some folders to PythonPath which meant that multiple plones using the same major python version would try to share parts of the Plone installation. Not adding folders to the pythonpath registry key allows coexistence, and there are more than enough ways to add folders to pythonpath without using the registry.
Hi, Sidnei da Silva wrote:
Since I'm going to be building the installer for Windows I would like to quickly ask if anyone expects multiple Zope installs to live side-by-side. The existing installer atempted that but I don't believe it was very successful.
I would like to know if anyone has multiple Zope installations on Windows side-by-side and if they consider that important.
I wouldn't believe to install the same version twice. But different versions should be able to live together. Thanks for taking care for the windows builds! 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
Sidnei da Silva wrote:
I would like to know if anyone has multiple Zope installations on Windows side-by-side and if they consider that important.
Well, I do that all the time, I have: C:\Zope\2.7.3 C:\Zope\2.7.8 C:\Zope\2.9.1 C:\Zope\2.9.3 C:\Zope\2.9.4 ...and then lots of instances, which sometimes run at the same time listening on different ports: C:\Zope\projecta C:\Zope\projectb C:\Zope\projectc ...etc... ...but I never run these as a service, so I don't know if it's important from your point of view? cheers, Chris -- Simplistix - Content Management, Zope & Python Consulting - http://www.simplistix.co.uk
On 11/9/06, Chris Withers <chris@simplistix.co.uk> wrote:
Sidnei da Silva wrote:
I would like to know if anyone has multiple Zope installations on Windows side-by-side and if they consider that important.
Well, I do that all the time, I have:
C:\Zope\2.7.3 C:\Zope\2.7.8 C:\Zope\2.9.1 C:\Zope\2.9.3 C:\Zope\2.9.4
...and then lots of instances, which sometimes run at the same time listening on different ports:
C:\Zope\projecta C:\Zope\projectb C:\Zope\projectc ...etc...
...but I never run these as a service, so I don't know if it's important from your point of view?
That's exactly what I wanted to hear. Thanks everyone for the feedback. -- Sidnei da Silva Enfold Systems http://enfoldsystems.com Fax +1 832 201 8856 Office +1 713 942 2377 Ext 214
On 11/9/06, Sidnei da Silva <sidnei@enfoldsystems.com> wrote:
On 11/9/06, Chris Withers <chris@simplistix.co.uk> wrote:
Sidnei da Silva wrote:
I would like to know if anyone has multiple Zope installations on Windows side-by-side and if they consider that important.
Well, I do that all the time, I have:
C:\Zope\2.7.3 C:\Zope\2.7.8 C:\Zope\2.9.1 C:\Zope\2.9.3 C:\Zope\2.9.4
Since I saw this, I've changed the default directory to <Program Files>\Zope\2.9.5. There will be two sub-directories here, 'Zope' and 'Python'. This is so Python is not buried inside a 'bin' directory.
...and then lots of instances, which sometimes run at the same time listening on different ports:
C:\Zope\projecta C:\Zope\projectb C:\Zope\projectc
What would be a good default for instance? I thought of \Zope\Instance\<Version> or maybe even \Zope\Version. Shouldn't affect you since you seem to not use the default anyway. -- Sidnei da Silva Enfold Systems http://enfoldsystems.com Fax +1 832 201 8856 Office +1 713 942 2377 Ext 214
Sidnei da Silva wrote:
Since I saw this, I've changed the default directory to <Program Files>\Zope\2.9.5.
Bleugh. I hate "Program Files" :-(
There will be two sub-directories here, 'Zope' and 'Python'. This is so Python is not buried inside a 'bin' directory.
yay :-)
What would be a good default for instance? I thought of \Zope\Instance\<Version> or maybe even \Zope\Version. Shouldn't affect you since you seem to not use the default anyway.
Honestly, loose the version from that completely. I'm pretty sure I'm not the only person who moves intances from version to version as new versions are released ;-) Chris -- Simplistix - Content Management, Zope & Python Consulting - http://www.simplistix.co.uk
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