[Buildbot-commits] [Buildbot] #971: Build a windows installer

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#971: Build a windows installer
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Reporter:  dustin       |       Owner:  fatman2
    Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  accepted
Priority:  major        |   Milestone:  0.8.+
 Version:               |  Resolution:
Keywords:  windows      |
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Changes (by jollyroger):

 * cc: jolly_roger@… (added)


Comment:

 Just in case we didn't missed the thing. We can use
 {{{
 python.exe setup.py bdist --format=msi
 }}}
 to get an correct msi installer right from our sources with no significant
 effort! However there is a problem with minor versions and nightly builds:
 version should be in format `[0-9.]+` so I managed build installer for
 0.8.4 but could not build it for 0.8.3p1.

 Installer correctly detects installed Python versions and can be installed
 into custom path too (e.g. you will be available to install it under
 virtualenv, but just once). The installer also doesn't detect
 dependencies. Uninstaller in this case removes all installed buildbot
 instances at once, so I recommend to install buildslave only system-wide
 with this method.

 I won't attach the installer itself — you'll be able to build it on any
 windows box having buildbot sources and installed Python.

 If we need more complicated installer, than NSIS is the right choice. But
 at least we could suggest developers of Zope.Interface and other our
 dependencies and useful tools to make binary builds and publish them OR we
 could download such dependencies' sources, build installer during
 installation and install them. The latter method is already tested by
 myself for virtualenv and Zope.Interface. This will surely work for pure
 python packages and even twisted creates such installers (the msi ones,
 not exe) but binary modules is another talk.

 I also tried to build installer under wine and it works under wine ONLY.
 However nsis installers built under linux work in windows fine.

 '''fatman''', if you're working on this still and you're not against
 someone's help, please get in touch with me to cooperate on this task (my
 nickname on github is the same as here).

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