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

[Jim Fulton]

Chris Withers wrote:
> Tim Peters wrote:
> 
>>> I'd be happy to set up a nightly (or weekly, let me know which would be
>>> better) scheduled task [...] that checked out he latest HEAD of Zope 3,
>>> compiled it and PUT it up to my Zope.org member area
>>
>>
>> I expect that would be helpful, and also helpful for the Zope 2 HEAD,
> 
> 
> Hmmm.. haven't heard much demand for the Zope 2 HEAD... what leads you 
> to believe there is demand for that?
> 
>> but
>> it's not clear what you would upload.  For example, just the .pyds, or 
>> the
>> entire codebase, or...?
> 
> 
> What I used to run the tests... Equivalent of an inplace build, IIRC...

You should do just a zip file of pyds

>>> (I suspect the slowest part of this process will actually be uploading
>>> it to Zope.org
>>
>>
>> If it's just the .pyds, the upload is small and goes fast, and only 
>> *needs*
>> to be done when Zope's C code changes (infrequent).  If it's the entire
>> codebase, then, ya, it will go slower, and needs doing more often.
> 
> 
> Indeed. This needs to not make people think, so "as close to a normal 
> binary build as possible" is good.

No. The target of this is developers.  People whould be able
manage extracting a zip file of pyds into a cvs checkout.  If they
can't manage that, then I don't want them this close to the bleeding edge.

...

>> + One test will never pass on Win98SE (it opens more sockets
>>   simultaneously than Win98SE can handle).
> 
> 
> Maybe we can have a test level for pathalogically damaged OS'es like Win98?
> (and no, NT, 2000 and XP do NOT count as pathalogically damaged...)

Perhaps we should stop supporting Win 98.

Jim

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