[Zope-dev] Re: buildout on Windows

[Chris Withers]

Sidnei da Silva wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 1:10 PM, Philipp von Weitershausen
> <philipp at weitershausen.de> wrote:
>> b) or extend the plone.recipe.zope2install recipe to get the binary Zope
>> installer and execute it (if that's even possible) on Windows, rather than
>> trying to get the source tarball and compile it (this would still be the
>> default for Unixy platforms).
> 
> Why would it not be possible?
> 
> Another option would be to use some sort of 'Inno Unpacker', which I
> believe exists but I have not looked at.
> 
> Yet another option would be to just tar up the results of running
> 'setup.py build-ext -i' on a extracted tarball and put it in some
> common location, alongside with the installer.

...or just eggify Zope 2 into a few big eggs:

- anything from Zope 3 can come from existing eggs
- one big egg for the rest of Zope 2

Surely that'd do it, right? I have vague memories of someone working on 
this... who is it?

cheers,

Chris

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