<span style="font-family: verdana;">I think that "volunteer to care" was the crucial phrase with focus on the word 'care'. Now perhaps I read it the wrong way and I apologise if I did but Andreas has been very anti-Windows in the past. Perhaps the word 'ignorant' is slighty harsh. I still feel there is a lot of anti-Windows feeling and whilst I don't prefer the platform I feel it should be well supported. Perhaps Enfold could help with Zope Windows builds as they have done with Plone Windows builds which are fantastic? I have occasionally attempted to install separate Zope instances on Windows and have achieved that but obviously installers are the ultimate for exposure.
</span><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/12/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Chris Withers</b> <<a href="mailto:chris@simplistix.co.uk">chris@simplistix.co.uk</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Jens Vagelpohl wrote:<br>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----<br>> Hash: SHA1<br>><br>><br>> On 11 Oct 2006, at 17:14, michael nt milne wrote:<br>><br>>> "<br>>> The windows builds will be available as soon as someone volunteer to care
<br>>> about the Windows platform.<br>>><br>>> "<br>>><br>>> ignorant thinking. Most businesses use Windows and Zope will suffer<br>>> unless it is embraced.<br>><br>> Who do you think you are insulting people who actually invest a lot of
<br>> their spare time in the software and in the community? You being an<br>> annoying troll is helping no one, and it certainly won't get Windows<br>> builds done.<br><br>Haha, just add him to your email blacklist, saves a lot of trouble ;-)
<br><br>For the record, the releases are not available because no-one is capable<br>rather than motivated to produce them.<br><br>Having built a couple, Windows releases are a royal PITA even if<br>everything goes smoothly...
<br><br>Now Michael, unless you're prepared to build these releases yourself, I<br>less than politely suggest you STFU...<br><br>Chris<br><br>PS: For the non-trolls on this list, I believe Sidnei da Silva is<br>thinking about taking up this painful task... send him beer/love/money
<br>and he might be further persuaded...<br><br>PPS: We all might also like to thank Tim Peters for doing such a good<br>job of building Windows releases in the past that no-one noticed the<br>delay between the source and binary release...
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