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

[Tim Peters]

[Sandor]
> The Python folks created bindings for the Windows Installer
> infrastructure and built a script around it which assembles a Python
> .msi distribution. No need for WISE, InstallShield, etc.

OTOH, Wise and InstallShield have elaborate GUIs for building Windows
installers, and incorporate a great deal of Windows-specific knowledge.  The
Python bindings for Windows Installer are at a much lower level -- it's
harder to get started with that.

> AFAIK they want to switch to this tool for 2.4 release.
>
> http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/python/python/nondist/sandbox/msi/

Right; Martin v. Löwis presented a paper about it at PyCon last month:

    http://www.python.org/pycon/dc2004/papers/44/

The Zope 2.7.0 Windows installer, and the current ZRS and Z4I Windows
installers, were built using (the free) InnoSetup.  The InnoSetup part of it
is easy; the hard part is setting up everything needed to get to that part.
Go ahead:  check out

    http://cvs.zope.org/Packages/WinBuilders/

and just *try* to build a Zope installer for Windows <wink>.