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On Sep 27, 2007, at 12:40 PM, Michael Reitsma wrote:
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> <a bit offtopic>
> So where does this us Windows users leave us ?

with the rest of us ;-)

seriously. buildout works just fine on windows. that's one of its  
strengths.

have you tried running bootstrap.py? what do you get? somebody  
reported a problem on plone-users, but i couldn't figure out, what  
the reason was. feedback is welcome!

the tar and svn commands are just particular means to unpack the  
buildout-archive or to checkout the buildout.

once you've got the buildout sitting on your drive you just need to  
run bootstrap.py

> I mean i have a Zope/Plone instance and suppose i want to install a  
> Product ?
> Is there anywhere listed how i am supposed to do this the easy way ?

as stated in the previous mail, you need to copy the products inside  
quills-products into the Products folder of your existing instance.  
everything inside src goes into lib/python of your instance. look at  
their respective READMEs on how to activate them for your setup.  
(items inside lib/python are *not* automatically active as products  
living inside the Products folder are. that's a design-feature, not a  
bug)

> I know this buildout cmd line with a thousand options on a single  
> line is easy peasy for the average Linux guy but i have never dealt  
> with that on Windows and would like to know what to do on Windows.
> Without knowing to much how it is supposed to be done on Windows i  
> don't see this as an advancement from my perspective really.....

i think, it's only the mix of products and packages that create this  
hassle. in the future, everything will be just an egg and you can  
install it with easy_install (regardless of which platform you're on)

> It looks like Zope/Plone is moving away from dual platform towards  
> Linux more and more with this stuff.....

absolutely not. you're just dealing with

a) a product that's released partly as Product and partly as packages
b) a first time release manager who doesn't know jack about windows

i'm learning from this as much as you probably are!

thanks for hanging in there and still being interested in Quills!

cheers,

tom
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> </a bit offtopic>
>
> rgrds Mike
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