[Zope3-dev] ZODB or zodb

[Dave HARRIS]

As a second-class poster (or maybe even parcel post, my Saturday post is 
still pending someplace), I'll wave my hand indicating I'm trying to do 
Windows builds.

I replied to this thread earlier, suggesting that Jim's warning about CVS 
'weirdness' may have forestalled reports of build failures...

Dave Harris


>From: "Tim Peters" <tim at zope.com>
>To: <jim at zope.com>, "Mark McEahern" <mark at mceahern.com>
>CC: Albertas Agejevas <alga at akl.lt>, zope3-dev at zope.org
>Subject: RE: [Zope3-dev] ZODB or zodb
>Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 14:26:43 -0500
>
>[Jim Fulton]
> > Mark McEahern wrote:
> > ...
> >
> > blah blah blah
> >
> > Jim and Fred broke Zope 3 on windows
> >
> > blah blah blah
> >
> > :)
>
>That's a fair summary <wink>.
>
> > Right. I guess we should back this out.  The only way to do this,
> > really is to remove the links in the repository.  This will cause
> > errors in existing checkouts.  For most folks who aren't modifying
> > Zope 3, this shouldn't present a problem. They'll just have to check
> > out Zope 3 again. If anyone has sandboxes they care about, they'll
> > have to edit their CVS Entries files. I guess that this is not as bad
> > as the current pain.
>
>I don't know:  how many people are building Zope3 on a Windows box?  Mark's
>was the only report so far, and he stumbled into it as a Zope3 newbie 
>(which
>is a bad initial experience, so I don't want to minimize it).  I used to at
>least run the Zope3 tests religiously on Windows, but stopped doing so some
>months ago as other tasks crowded it out.  Chris Withers seems to have
>stopped doing his overnight Windows test runs some time ago too.  Anyone
>else?
>
> > So, I propose to remove the links in the repository, breaking (in a
> > fixable way) current checkouts, but making Zope 3 work on Windows
> > again.
> >
> > Any objections? If not, I'll do this tonight.
>
>Will this leave you and Fred with a reasonable way to make progress on the
>ZODB3 migration?  Getting that done is (IMO) more important than some
>short-term Zope3 pain unique to the CVS version of Zope3 on Windows.
>
>
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