Re: Proposal: buildout-based Plone Installer for Windows (PLIP #227)
Martin Aspeli <[email protected]>
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Sidnei da Silva wrote: > Hi Tarek, > > On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 2:50 PM, Tarek Ziade <[email protected]> wrote: >> 1/ The pre-built story: >> >> I am wondering if we really need to ship prebuilt versions.. If I recall it >> correctly, >> a plain Plone doesn't need extra libs to be compiled, just a compiler. > > But why would you compile everything on the target system? There's no > reason for that at all, it's just wasting resources. > >> And Mingw can be shipped with the installer, without having to be installed >> on the system >> itself. It is just a simple folder that can be linked to distutils. > > That can be done yes. I think it's nice if we can include a properly configured (distutils.cfg) mingw with the Python install that comes with the Windows installer, so that people can more easily compile future eggs. Having the stock eggs pre-compiled is probably sensible though. Martin -- Author of `Professional Plone Development`, a book for developers who want to work with Plone. See http://martinaspeli.net/plone-book ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/