[Zope3-dev] Re: Nightly Zope 3 Binary Compiles for WIndows

[Max M]

Tim Peters wrote:

> I uploaded a zip file with .pyds.  If someone unzips that, pointing at the
> root of their Zope3 checkout, they should end up with exactly what they'd
> get if they were *able* to do a "build_ext -i" of Zope3 using MSVC 6.
> 
> That seems to be what Max really wants, and it's easy to supply if so.  It's
> also fast to upload and download (even for those on dialup lines).

Yes. That is exactly it. Installers are nice for stable releases, but in 
this stage it would be much better to have a system that can be updated 
via cvs (or hopefully from Suversion soon)

With cvs and Tims .pyd files, I can just have a Z3 working directory, 
where I can keep my own code. Update it through CVS. If Z3 breaks I can 
download the latest binaries from Tim.

That would be really simple, and *allmost* as good as being able to 
compile it myself.

I am note really shure what consequences an installer would have, but I 
expect that I would need to download, install and manually change some 
configuration files to use the latest version.

That ain't much work I know, but on a daily basis it would probably be 
tedious.

regards Max M