[Zope-dev] Re: [Zope3-dev] December release post-mortem

[Christian Theune]

Hi,

On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 13:40 -0200, Sidnei da Silva wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 10:27:25AM -0500, Jim Fulton wrote:
> | >The installers do not require much Windows expertise. In fact, they
> | >require a lot of 'makefile' expertise right now, and some Inno Setup
> | >expertise, not much else.
> | 
> | Sorry, Inno Setup is a windows installation builder.  I consider this
> | windows expertise.
> 
> You don't have to know how to operate Inno Setup for building a
> installer though. It pretty much boils down to editing the makefiles
> to contain the proper version number and typing 'make'. I would
> consider that automated enough. What about adding a target that does
> this into the buildbot so we get nightly installers?

You have to know Inno. I took care for the Windows builds for a while
and it was a large pain to get it started. I'm not a natural windows
hacker, although I was developing on windows some years ago and know my
way around. Additionally the whole cludge (was/is) very fragile so that
new releases pretty reliably required tweaking the build environment.

As Tim said one day: You need to work/develop on windows on a daily
basis to be able to cut releases for it.

I'd second this for any platform actually.

Christian

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