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

[Phil Harris]

Not sure if this interests anyone, but it seems that Microsoft has 
recently released a standalone command-line only version of their latest 
c++ compiler (also does plain c, and c#).

http://msdn.microsoft.com/visualc/vctoolkit2003/

Additional info here:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=272BE09D-40BB-49FD-9CB0-4BFA122FA91B&displaylang=en

also, the sdk is available here:

http://www.microsoft.com/msdownload/platformsdk/sdkupdate/

Hope that helps

Phil

Tim Peters wrote:

> [Chris Withers]
> 
>>Hmmm.. haven't heard much demand for the Zope 2 HEAD... what leads
>>you to believe there is demand for that?
> 
> 
> I haven't heard much demand for either.  For example, in this thread so far,
> only Max has spoken up.  One person is enough for me, though.
> 
> 
>>...
>>Indeed. This needs to not make people think, so "as close to a
>>normal binary build as possible" is good.  If someone can teach me
>>how to build the installer process, I'd give it a go, if purely out
>>of masochistic interest.  That said, I'm not sure there IS a Windows
>>installer for ZOpe 3 yet, so that makes lfie easier ;-)
> 
> 
> Zope Corp has no Windows installer for Zope3.
> 
> If you want the software to improve on Windows, then we need to encourage
> more developers on Windows to contribute.  If any such exist <0.9 wink>, the
> only mechanical thing holding them back is the lack of MSVC 6.  They have
> all the source code via CVS, and if they're going to make useful code
> changes, they *need* to get the source from CVS (so they can check in
> changes, or at least create a patch).
> 
> For that reason, I think a zip file with .pyds is better than a Windows
> installer.
> 
> 
>>...
>>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...)
> 
> 
> There's only one Zope3 test that fails on Win98SE, due to "too many"
> sockets.  I'll fiddle that test to use fewer sockets on pre-NT Windows.
> 
> 
>>>+ One of the --all ZEO tests often fails on my hyper-threaded
>>>  Pentium box, but never fails anywhere else, and never fails
>>>  if I disable hyper-threading in the BIOS.
> 
> 
>>What IS hyper threading?!
>>
>>*grinz*
> 
> 
> I thought I knew, before this test starting faiing in its presence <sigh>.
> It's a ZEO test with 2 threads, it times out after 5 minutes because one of
> the threads never manages to make progress, but the whole time it's running
> both logical CPUs are nearly idle (4-8%).  Turn HT off, and the test
> finishes every time (and in less than 13 seconds -- it runs for a
> theoretical minimum of 10 seconds).
> 
> 
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