[Zope] Re: [Image-SIG] Installing PIL on Windows

[Chris Beaumont]

On *nix, the python executable that is installed in a Zope binary 
install is in the 'bin' directory. So you can execute it by 
specifying it explicitly by path.. (otherwise you might get the 
regular installed version of python)

I found this helpful in getting the PIL installation on my Linux zope 
installation to work.. (it allowed me to run the setup.py scripts 
properly by including the Zope python in my path environmental 
variable and specifying the path to python and the python executable 
on the command line..)

A similar situation probably exists for Windows..  Not having any 
experience at all running Zope under Windows, I wouldn't be able to 
help you much beyond that..  But you should be able to get somewhere 
with this info, it was very helpful to me and not documented 
anywhere....


-Chris Beaumont

>Thank you Eric -
>Do you have any experience with Zope?  As best I can tell as a relative
>Newbie to Python and Zope is that Zope only seems to execute in the context
>of the python installation it created at installation and so it doesn't seem
>to find resources such as PIL.  I have no idea where that 'python path' is
>set or how to modify it except as the directory it is launched from.  The
>issue is that Zope only sees the instance of Python that it installed
>itself.  I tried clean installing Python first and Zope over it, forcing it
>to the same directory names, but the links to PIL still end up broken by
>this approach
>Any thoughts?
>Thanks again,
>Gary