[Checkins] SVN: grok/trunk/doc/tutorial.rst A note about win32all requirement on windows.

Martijn Faassen faassen at infrae.com
Thu Jan 8 15:54:47 EST 2009


Log message for revision 94662:
  A note about win32all requirement on windows.
  

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  U   grok/trunk/doc/tutorial.rst

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Modified: grok/trunk/doc/tutorial.rst
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--- grok/trunk/doc/tutorial.rst	2009-01-08 20:54:22 UTC (rev 94661)
+++ grok/trunk/doc/tutorial.rst	2009-01-08 20:54:47 UTC (rev 94662)
@@ -87,8 +87,12 @@
     $ sudo easy_install -U setuptools
 
 Setting up grok on a Unix-like (Linux, Mac OS X) environment is
-easy. 
+easy. Most of these instructions should also work in a Windows
+environment as well. Note that on Windows you need to have the
+``win32all`` package installed (download_).
 
+.. _download: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/
+
 Let's go through the prerequisites first. You need a computer
 connected to the internet, as Grok installs itself over the
 network. You also need Python 2.4 installed (Python 2.5 is not
@@ -169,10 +173,14 @@
   means that the virtualenv option is always recommended on Mac OS X,
   unless you install a separate version of Python.
 
+  On Windows you need to make sure you have win32all_ installed.
+
   .. _virtualenv: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/virtualenv
 
   .. _`Using Virtualenv for a clean Grok installation`:  http://grok.zope.org/documentation/how-to/using-virtualenv-for-a-clean-grok-installation
 
+  .. _win32all: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/
+
 Starting up Zope
 ----------------
 



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