Re: [Plone-developers] lxml on Windows (was Re: Plone 4.2rc1 soft-released)
Laurence Rowe <[email protected]>
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I believe the unofficial builds are created using bdist_wininst rather than bdist_egg, which I don't think is supported by buildout. I've mailed Christoph to ask if he would be willing to generate bdist_egg as well. Laurence On 9 May 2012 21:55, Jon Stahl <[email protected]> wrote: > This is obviously beyond my pay grade, but my first question would be: > "Why haven't they blessed the 'unofficial' binaries?" I suspect there > is at least a semi-interesting story there. > > If I had to make a call based on the limited information we have right > now, I suppose I'd say "Include the unofficial binaries" and then make > some inquiries with the LXML folks to find out what's up with the > 'unofficial' binaries and what they might need to improve the > situation. > > :jon > > > On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 12:42 PM, Eric Steele <[email protected]> wrote: >> Good catch, Anthony. Thank you. >> >> So how do we want to handle this? >> >> Looking around, I found http://lxml.de/FAQ.html#where-are-the-binary-builds, >> pointing out that the Windows binaries are unmaintained, though unofficial >> builds are available at http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#lxml. Do >> we need to dig up someone to be an official maintainer for Plone's sake or >> can we just bundle the unofficial builds with the Windows installer? >> >> Eric >> >> On Wednesday, May 9, 2012 at 3:29 AM, Anthony Gerrard wrote: >> >> I just tried upgrading a development environment and running our tests >> which mostly pass or fail in expected ways (e.g. browser tests failing >> because the html has changed). >> >> I notice lxml has been upgraded to 2.3.4 but there are no Windows >> distributions on PyPi since version 2.3. I don't know whether this is >> a big issue but Windows users using buildout will get an error. >> >> On 8 May 2012 20:32, Eric Steele <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> http://dist.plone.org/release/4.2rc1-pending/versions.cfg >> >> Plone 4.2rc1 is now soft-released. Point your buildouts >> at http://dist.plone.org/release/4.2rc1-pending/versions.cfg and let me know >> that it's working for you. Once I've had a few responses, I'll push it out >> to the public. >> >> Eric >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Live Security Virtual Conference >> Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and >> threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions >> will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware >> threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ >> _______________________________________________ >> Plone-developers mailing list >> Plone-developers-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plone-developers >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Live Security Virtual Conference >> Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and >> threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions >> will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware >> threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ >> _______________________________________________ >> Plone-developers mailing list >> Plone-developers-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plone-developers >> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Live Security Virtual Conference > Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and > threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions > will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware > threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ > _______________________________________________ > Plone-developers mailing list > Plone-developers-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plone-developers ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/