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

"Tarek Ziade" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.zope.plone.devel,gmane.comp.web.zope.plone.installers
Message-ID <[email protected]>
2008/3/17, Laurence Rowe <[email protected]>:
>
> Tarek Ziade wrote:
> > 2008/3/17, Laurence Rowe <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>:
> <snip />
>
> >
> >
> >     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)


I'll let Sidnei answer precisely on this one, but as far as I know, it will
be a self-contained
Python with extra libs.

Tarek



Larence
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