[Zope-Coders] binary releases

[Martijn Faassen]

Hi there,

I'd like to release a new development version of ParsedXML. One 
complication is that ParsedXML comes with an Expat binary. For the 
source version this is not a problem, but Windows users are used to
binary versions. Since we're also still supporting 1.5.2 I need two
releases for Windows, one for Zope 2.4/Python 2.1 and one for Zope 2.3/
Python 1.5.2 (note that the current CVS was mildly broken for Python 1.5.2
due to a missing #include <assert.h> in pyexpat.c, in case you feel like
surprising me with a binary :)

Who creates these windows binaries? I don't have a Windows compiler, myself.
What kind of release procedures  do we have in the first place? Where would
I put the release? How does a release become 'official', and how official
should it be?

I'd like to move fairly quickly with ParsedXML releases for now, so the
extra requirement would be for the procedure to be light weight.

Note that eventually I hope to dump the Expat (and binary) requirement by using
Python's; this should be possible with Python 2.1 though not with 1.5.2.

Regards,

Martijn