[Zope-dev] Re: Zope 3 on Python 2.5, Zope 3 releases

[Hanno Schlichting]

Chris Withers wrote:
> Martin Aspeli wrote:
>> Certainly, running Python 2.4 and Zope 2.10 compiled with mingw32 on 
>> Windows as per http://plone.org/documentation/tutorial/buildout has 
>> not given us any problems after a few months of using it.
> 
> I would expect the above to work as *everything* is built using mingw32.

No, it is not. It uses the official Python Windows installer, being 
built with some M$ C compiler, adds Python Win32 add-ons and PIL using 
the Windows binary installers and only advertises using MinGW for 
compiling all of Zope itself.

I haven't seen anyone running into any problems with this approach for 
years now.

 From my understanding starting with 2.4 Python includes certain files 
to make this approach work as smooth as possible. In the old days you 
had to extract some header files out of the dll's, which are now 
included in the binary installers by default.

Hanno