[Zope-dev] Re: Nightly Zope 3 Binary Compiles for WIndows

[Chris Withers]

Jim Fulton wrote:
>> I'd be happy to set up a nightly (or weekly, let me know which would 
>> be better) scheduled task (see, it's Widnows, there is no Cron, 
>> although Schedules Tasks do have a much nicer UI ;-) ) that checked 
>> out he latest HEAD of Zope 3, compiled it and PUT it up to my Zope.org 
>> member area
> 
> I think that would be super.  Nightly would be best.

Okay, added to the bottom of a sadly very long list :-S

> Do you have to go through all of that? Couldn't you put it up as a zip
> file, using ZMI, rather than CMF API's?

As a mere mortal member and not-yet-signer of litigious paperwork, am I allowed 
ZMI access?

> I think making the binaries available will widen the pool of people
> who could fix windows problems.

Really? I would have thought they'd need ot be able to compile :-S

> Don't confuse "caring" with "time" and "priorities".  I care about having
> Zope 3 run on Windows, and Mac OS X, and other platforms.  I don't have 
> time
> to do that though.  I think it would be appropriate for others to help 
> by working
> on windows and Mac OS X (etc.) issues.

Indeed. Although the stuff which stopped me was shear carelessness (things like 
just using unix path seperators rather that os.path.join, etc)...

cheers,

Chris

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