[Zope-dev] Re: Zope 3 on Python 2.5, Zope 3 releases

[Martin Aspeli]

Chris Withers wrote:
> Stephan Richter wrote:
>> On Saturday 12 July 2008, Martijn Faassen wrote:
>>> Chris wants to do them, he just wants some documentation on how to get
>>> started, I suspect.
>> I use Philipp's blog entry from ages ago:
>>
>> http://www.z3lab.org/sections/blogs/philipp-weitershausen/2007_07_26_cheap-binary-windows
> 
> You see, I've always worried about using mingw32.
> 
> I was under the impression that you really wanted to have all the C bits 
> compiled with the same compiler, and I know that the official Python 2.5 
> releases aren't compiled with mingw32...
> 
> Can someone with definitive knowledge let us know if there can be 
> problems when some C-extensions are compiled with mingw32 and others 
> (including python itself!) are compiled with the appropriate microsoft 
> compiler?

Certainly, running Python 2.4 and Zope 2.10 compiled with mingw32 on 
Windows as per http://plone.org/documentation/tutorial/buildout has not 
given us any problems after a few months of using it.

Martin

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