I think that "volunteer to care" was the crucial phrase with focus on the word 'care'. Now perhaps I read it the wrong way and I apologise if I did but Andreas has been very anti-Windows in the past. Perhaps the word 'ignorant' is slighty harsh. I still feel there is a lot of anti-Windows feeling and whilst I don't prefer the platform I feel it should be well supported. Perhaps Enfold could help with Zope Windows builds as they have done with Plone Windows builds which are fantastic? I have occasionally attempted to install separate Zope instances on Windows and have achieved that but obviously installers are the ultimate for exposure. On 10/12/06, Chris Withers <chris@simplistix.co.uk> wrote:
Jens Vagelpohl wrote:
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On 11 Oct 2006, at 17:14, michael nt milne wrote:
" The windows builds will be available as soon as someone volunteer to care about the Windows platform.
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ignorant thinking. Most businesses use Windows and Zope will suffer unless it is embraced.
Who do you think you are insulting people who actually invest a lot of their spare time in the software and in the community? You being an annoying troll is helping no one, and it certainly won't get Windows builds done.
Haha, just add him to your email blacklist, saves a lot of trouble ;-)
For the record, the releases are not available because no-one is capable rather than motivated to produce them.
Having built a couple, Windows releases are a royal PITA even if everything goes smoothly...
Now Michael, unless you're prepared to build these releases yourself, I less than politely suggest you STFU...
Chris
PS: For the non-trolls on this list, I believe Sidnei da Silva is thinking about taking up this painful task... send him beer/love/money and he might be further persuaded...
PPS: We all might also like to thank Tim Peters for doing such a good job of building Windows releases in the past that no-one noticed the delay between the source and binary release... -- Simplistix - Content Management, Zope & Python Consulting - http://www.simplistix.co.uk
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