[Zope3-dev] Re: Zope 3.0, and why I won't use it

[Tim Peters]

[Lennart Regebro]
>> That could work. It also seems to me that Zope2/3 works fine with the
>> free version of Microsoft C compiler that is available,

[Jim Fulton]
> It does? You know this?
>
> I've heard that Python itself couldn't work with it, so I assumed
> that Zope wouldn't work with it.

Mike Fletcher has done the most extensive investigation of this I'm
aware of.  See:

    http://www.vrplumber.com/programming/mstoolkit/

for details.  Be acutely aware that every step listed there came into
being because all simpler attempts eventually blew up.  AFAIK Mike has
not tried to build any Zope-related extensions, but did get Numpy,
mxTextTools, and his own (extensive) OpenGL extensions running this
way.  There's a link on that page to a python-dev msg from someone
else who believed they were able to get Python 2.4 running in a
related way.

I haven't tried any of this myself.