Re: lxml on Windows (was Re: Plone 4.2rc1 soft-released)

On 2012-05-10 16:43, Laurence Rowe wrote:
> Thanks for testing this Anthony. The URLs change frequently on that
> site, presumably to prevent the server being overloaded with automated
> downloads. We should just mirror the eggs onto dist.plone.org.

Why is it not possible to direct upload the eggs to pypi? Why do make 
people that so difficult?

Jens

> Laurence
>
> On 10 May 2012 15:16, Anthony Gerrard<[email protected]>  wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've tested the win32 egg and it installs no problem.
>>
>> It took me a while to realize that the page with the binary eggs uses
>> javascript on the links so I had to work out the url and put that
>> directly into find-links
>>
>> http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/gid7eya7/lxml-2.3.4-py2.6-win32.egg
>>
>> Anthony
>>
>> On 10 May 2012 00:21, Eric Steele<[email protected]>  wrote:
>>> Damn, now that's service. Many thanks, Laurence.
>>> Eric
>>>
>>> On Wednesday, May 9, 2012 at 6:03 PM, Laurence Rowe wrote:
>>>
>>> The binary eggs are now up at
>>> http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#lxml. If someone with
>>> Windows handy can check they work in a buildout we should mirror them
>>> onto dist.plone.org to make them available to existing Plone buildouts
>>> on Windows.
>>>
>>> Christoph also mentioned that Bento plans to support conversion
>>> between formats in a future version. https://github.com/cournape/Bento
>>>
>>> Laurence
>>>
>>> On 9 May 2012 22:51, Laurence Rowe<[email protected]>  wrote:
>>>
>>> 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
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