[Zope-dev] Re: buildout on Windows

[Tres Seaver]

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Chris Withers wrote:
> 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?

Chris McDonough did exactly that (rolle one big Zope2 egg) to support
repoze.zope2:

 - http://dist.repoze.org/zope2/2.10/zopelib-2.10.6.0.tar.gz

 - http://dist.repoze.org/zope2/2.9/zopelib-2.9.8.2.tar.gz



Tres.
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