[Zope-Coders] Windows and OSX controllers / distros

[Richard Jones]

On Wed, 14 Aug 2002 1:54 pm, Jens Vagelpohl wrote:
> i can't really help with the controller applications (no experience with
> objective C here)

The OSX controller isn't ObjC - just plain ole C using the Carbon libraries. 
And don't let a lack of experience with Carbon stop you there - I knew 
bugger-all about it, and still know very little ;)

The win control panel is C++ though.


> but i have been thinking that it should not be hard for
> us to offer a simple "binary release" of zope for OS X that looks like the
> linux binary release. it would probably not be too hard to offer it in a
> tarball, but having a dmg or some kind of installer would be nice. does the
> makefile you mention also build zope and python?

Yep. It uses the standard OSX installer and all :)

The win/mac controllers and installation bundles were developed as an offshoot 
of the "helping the dummies" effort that I did at Bizar Software.


    Richard