[Zope-dev] Re: Nightly Zope 3 Binary Compiles for WIndows

[Jim Fulton]

Chris Withers wrote:

>> Do you have to go through all of that? Couldn't you put it up as a zip
>> file, using ZMI, rather than CMF API's?
> 
> 
> As a mere mortal member and not-yet-signer of litigious paperwork, am I 
> allowed ZMI access?

Sure.  After you log in, you can still get to Members/youruserid/manage_main.

>> I think making the binaries available will widen the pool of people
>> who could fix windows problems.
> 
> 
> Really? I would have thought they'd need ot be able to compile :-S

If they have the .pyd files, they can run Zope and fix problems
they find in the .py files.

>> Don't confuse "caring" with "time" and "priorities".  I care about having
>> Zope 3 run on Windows, and Mac OS X, and other platforms.  I don't 
>> have time
>> to do that though.  I think it would be appropriate for others to help 
>> by working
>> on windows and Mac OS X (etc.) issues.
> 
> 
> Indeed. Although the stuff which stopped me was shear carelessness 
> (things like just using unix path seperators rather that os.path.join, 
> etc)...

<shrug>

Jim

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