Re: Proposal: buildout-based Plone Installer for Windows (PLIP #227)

Martin Aspeli wrote:
> 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
> 

Will normal win32 python extensions compiled against the standard 
windows python continue to function if we use Mingw?

On Windows I want to continue to be able to install python-ldap, 
database adapters, etc from their pre-built exe installer packages.

Laurence


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