Archive for the 'windows' Category

Here’s some exciting news from Enfold Systems. I’m really, really proud of being part of this team! Enfold Systems News Spring 2007 In this issue: Server 3 improves Windows intranets, extranets Proxy 3 squeezes better performance from servers Desktop 3 saves clicks, time … and now money New team member to benefit clients’ projects Server [...]


Most people don’t know, but Windows does support hard links, as long as you are using NTFS. It also supports shared read and write just like *nix, as long as you use the right APIs. This Python script demonstrates the creation of a hard link, that the hard link and the original file actually point [...]


Go! Get it while it’s hot. Also the usual way, through “easy_install lxml”, works on Windows too. Update: Stefan Behnel has just released lxml 1.3beta and lxml 1.2.1. Installers for Windows, for Python 2.3, 2.4 and 2.5 have been uploaded.


Ok, now this is the real thing. I had to hack my build process a little bit, but now the Plone 3.0.0 Alpha 2 Installer for Windows is ready! Yesterday I had a small problem with the Python module ‘tarfile’ not being able to unpack some of the eggs that are now part of Plone. [...]


This was supposed to be the announcement of the Plone 3.0.0 Alpha 2 Installer for Windows, following Wichert’s announcement today. Unfortunately, a wrench has been thrown into the engine. For some reason easy_install refuses to unpack the plone.app.contentrules package, complaining with a loud exception: tarobj._extract_member(member,dst) # XXX Ugh File “C:\src\ees\build\community\3.0.0\external-Python-2.4-source\lib\tarfile.py”, line 1440, in _extract_member self.utime(tarinfo, [...]


Hi there, I would like to announce the availability of the Plone 3.0.0 Installer for Windows, which can be downloaded from: http://www.enfoldsystems.com/downloads.html The 2.5 Installer has also been updated to include ElementTree, after I saw a message that it is required now (?), and can be downloaded from the same page. You are welcome to [...]


For those reading hannosch’s post, I just want to point out that yes, it is possible to run ‘bdist_wininst’ to create a Installer for Windows for your distutils-based package, as long as it does not contain extension modules. Well, and even if it has extension modules it might actually be possible to build them with [...]


Hello there! As you may have noticed, this blog has been down for a couple weeks. Some unexplained failure took down the machine that was previously hosting it and I’m still working to recover the box. But that does not mean the world has stopped! I’m still here, alive and kicking. But back to this [...]