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

Tarek Ziade wrote:
> 2008/3/17, Laurence Rowe <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>:
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> 
> 
>     Will normal win32 python extensions compiled against the standard
>     windows python continue to function if we use Mingw?
> 
> 
> Mingw will just let you compile source code to produce binaries,
> so existing binaries should work fine. Hooking Mingw to distutils
> is just fully enabling the "bdist" and "bdist_egg" commands that
> would otherwise fail if a C file has to be compiled (like in some zope
> packages)
> 
>     On Windows I want to continue to be able to install python-ldap,
>     database adapters, etc from their pre-built exe installer packages.
> 
> 
> I guess it is just a matter of pointing the right Python, and iirc a list of
> installed Python are displayed when you launch such an installer.
> 
> As long as the one used for the buildout is registered in the windows
> registery, it should be fine.
> 


Will we still get the standard python.org built python in this scenario, 
or a custom built one? Would it matter? (as far as extensions are concerned)


Larence


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