[Zope-dev] Re: Windows Binaries for 2.8b1

[yuppie]

Tim Peters wrote:
> Someone with setup.py courage needs to step up to the plate then.  The
> Windows build process is way hard enough to follow already without
> adding reams of arbitrary new makefile cruft to paper over setup.py
> bugs.  Perhaps someone on Linux could volunteer to run Zope trunk
> tests from the result of doing "setup.py install ...", and add missing
> files to setup.py until that works.  The WinBuilders tests can't
> possibly work either so long as setup.py neglects to install necessary
> files.

Done. (besides the Zope 3 failures)

I did that more than once, but why can't people clean up after 
themselves? AFAICS two things could help them:

- giving feedback by running nightly test on a not-in-place installation

- reducing the need for setup.py updates by switching to the Zope 3 
setup code


Just my 2 cents.

	Yuppie