[Zope] Python Packages and Zope windows binary install

Tino Wildenhain tino at wildenhain.de
Wed Nov 17 14:57:40 EST 2004


Hi,

Am Mittwoch, den 17.11.2004, 14:31 -0500 schrieb Will Smith:
> I need to run zope on windows.  The binary installs fine, but it creates 
> its own installation of python.  What is the best method to install 
> python packages to zope's python installation.
> 
> Currently, I have Zope-2.7.2 and python 2.3.3 installed.  I have been 
> using windows installers to install packages (dav, libxml2, mx, 
> python-mysql) into my dedicated python installation.  I tried hacking 
> around in the registry to get the installers to see Zopes python, but no 
> luck :(.  At this point I have been just copying the files from my 
> dedicated python/site-packages directory over to my 
> zope-python/site-packages directory.
> 
> So far this seems to work just fine, but then again, I have not put it 
> through many test.
> 
> Could someone please enlighten me.  Is this correct way of doing 
> this..Is this the preferred way of doing this...Is there a better way of 
> doing this.
> 
> BTW, I do not have a Windows C compiler, and from what I have seen 
> python recommends using Microsoft Visual Studio ( And I know my company 
> will not pay for that ).

You can use system python (if same version) with Zope very well.
Just change the occurences of python.exe to your system python.
Another trick would be to install Zope and then install
a windows python over it.

Btw. most european languages use the "?" sign to mark question
sentences :-)

Regards
Tino



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