[Zope-Coders] setup.py

[Matt Behrens]

> > I'd like to merge setup.py off my installer branch onto the HEAD.  My
> > setup.py is almost 100% rewritten, and builds all of Zope, not just
> > extension modules.  It has not been tested yet on Windows so if someone
> > with the Windows compiler set would care to try it I'd be grateful...

> Before merging to the HEAD, we need to make sure that 
> the documentation impact has been assessed and any relevant 
> docs have been updated. I'd also like to make sure that we 
> have done enough testing to sanity-check and make sure it 
> works on the major platforms (Linux, Solaris, Win32) and 
> that the "right thing" will still happen for the case 
> of a "binary distribution" (a Zope dist. that includes 
> its own bundled Python).

This is just setup.py; it is not the installer et al.  Does not affect
binary installs in any way.  Documentation impact should be zero as we
already have Shane's minimalist (i.e. build extensions only) setup.py on
the HEAD, and this one doesn't behave any differently for the current
build_ext use case.  Really, merging it to the HEAD is just so we are
not working in two directions with setup.py.  If the installer doesn't
go in and we stick with Python 2.1, it doesn't change the official way
people build Zope anyway.

It does still need to be tested on Windows (I have already tested it on
Solaris and Linux, and I gather Shane did Linux too.)