[Zope-Coders] Windows and OSX controllers / distros

[Richard Jones]

This is a general call out to anyone who has a development environment for 
Windows or OSX and is willing to take the GUI controllers under their wings. 
I'm getting a fair number of people asking me whether they are going to be 
supported in the future. I have no resources available to do so :(

  http://www.zope.org/Members/richard/zope_controller/mac
  http://www.zope.org/Members/richard/zope_controller/win

I think it'd be a real shame to let them slip away, since they really do lower 
the entry barrier for people wanting to use Zope and not having to worry 
about the intricacies (and obscurities) of the current Zope installation / 
process control setup. The Windows Zope service is also a major improvement 
on the one that ships with Zope :)

I also wrote a Makefile that packages up Zope for OSX with the Controller. The 
result is at:

  http://www.zope.org/Members/richard/zope_for_osx

... and this seems to be used too, though it hasn't been updated for over 6 
months. Definite Zope-for-dummies installation. Much, much simpler than the 
current scheme.


    Richard