[z3-five] Re: Five under Windows

[Jeroen Janssen]

Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:
>> Question: does this mean non-windows users also need to perform a 
>> build of zope3 before the "INSTALLATION" will work?
> 
> 
> No, a recent Zope X3 build should work, at least for now. We're 
> developing Five aggressively at the moment, so we have to keep it up to 
> date with Zope3's development, which has stabilized quite well for now, 
> though.

Well, the reason I asked was because I initially did a checkout of 
zope3, and tried pointing the path to it's "src" (as described in the 
INSTALL.txt).

However I soon found out that the 'src' directory of zope3 does not 
contain any binaries. (here binaries means the python extensions that 
need to be build with a C compiler).

Example: \Zope3\src\zope\proxy contains a _zope_proxy_proxy.c that is 
apparently needed.

So does someone on linux need to perform a build (with a C compiler) 
generating _zope_proxy_proxy.so before they can use the zope3 stuff?

>> I added the following lines to C:\Zope-Instance\etc\zope.conf:
>>
>>     path C:\Python23\Lib\site-packages
>>
>> This makes sure the zope3 package installed during step1 is found 
>> correctly, however this also means that everything else (non-zope) 
>> could be used, I'm not sure if that is a good thing.
> 
> 
> Well, again, I would recommend putting Zope 3 somewhere else and 
> pointing zope.conf there instead of the *other* Python's site-packages 
> directory.

Yeah, that sounds more reasonable to me too, I just used the *other* 
python to get the zope3 "C" "binaries" (what's the proper word anyway?)

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Jeroen