[Zope-Coders] silly windows request

[Chris McDonough]

On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 16:27, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> >  nmake uninstall
> 
> Um, this gives an error:
> 
>   rmdir /s /g "c:\zope"
>   Invalid switch - /S
> 
> >  nmake clean
> 
> Similar.

Ok, so be it.  The win32 Makefile officially doesn't work on Win98. ;-)


> > "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.

Yep... good call.

> > 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.

Ok, thanks for trying.  I still haven't reboooted. ;-)

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

Could be, only the code knows... ;-)

Thanks again,

- C