[Zope-Coders] silly windows request

[Guido van Rossum]

> > Did you clean evrything out first?  This doesn't seem to create a
> > lib\python directory for me at all!
> 
> I should have mentioned this, sorry.  Before re-running "nmake install"
> from the build directory, you should probably do:
> 
>  nmake uninstall

Um, this gives an error:

  rmdir /s /g "c:\zope"
  Invalid switch - /S

>  nmake clean

Similar.

> "nmake uninstall" will remove the installed "zope home" directory.

I think I got the same effect by typing "deltree \zope", which is the
win98 way.

> I think you specified "C:\zope", so for you the effect will be that
> the c:\zope directory and its contents will be removed.  "nmake
> clean" will get you back to "distribution-clean" state in the build
> tree.

I hope I got the same effect by deleting a bunch of stuff and retyping
cvs update.

> To be on the safe side, if you've created any separate instance home
> directories, delete them as well.

Done.

> Then run "nmake install" from the build dir and do as it instructs.

Still no dice.  It seems it has created lib\python\lib\python in the
build environment (where I cvs co'ed) though, and populated that.

> > Which Python are you using?  I'm using 2.3.
> 
> 2.1.3 (Yes, I'm a laggard).  Haven't yet tried it under NT, though but
> will be rebooting shortly.

I wonder if the meaning of some of these flags is simply different in
the 2.1 distutils?

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)