[Zope-Coders] Proposal: put i18n into 2.6

[Shane Hathaway]

On Mon, 16 Sep 2002, Brian Lloyd wrote:

> > >>Are we at a position yet where people outside of ZC can release an
> > >
> > > official
> > >
> > >>version of Zope?
> > >
> > >
> > > How difficult is it to release a version of beta?
> > > How much work is it?
> > > Is that's whats been holding it up or is it some bugs?
> >
> > I think one thing that holds up releases is the Win32 installer.  Last I
> > heard, we use a non-free tool to generate the installer.  I think we
> > ought to switch to Inno Setup, which I've used before with great
> > success... even through Wine. ;-)
>
> Sidestepping the WISE vs. Inno issue, I don't think that the
> win32 installer is a significant factor at all. The installer
> very rarely changes.

I was thinking more in terms of avoiding the need to always use the "build
farm".  If anyone could build a Zope release on their own workstation (for
their own platform), the process would become lighter and less opaque.
We'd all know just what tweaks are going into the releases (such as extra
Windows registry keys, compiler flags, etc.).  With WISE, it's hard for
contributors to help with this part of the software.

Only two or three people in the world know the steps to make a Zope
release.  That doesn't seem quite right.  OTOH it probably doesn't matter
much.

Shane