installation is a pain, win32 package anyone?

[anonymous]

When are you finally making an easy install? Why is there no Win32 "do it all" package?

Easy install is far more important than any new feature or bug fix!

I will not argue with the choice of a C templating engine (too late for this) but it is time to cut off dependencies. This clearsilver cannot compile under cygwin (sure it can, but have I to dig into C code just to try trac?).

My boss want to see a tracking tool: sure apt-get install is a snap, but we only have windows and are behind proxies and firewalls. The Java based solution are just "point and click". See by yourself: ​http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/docs/v3.5.3/install.html, ​http://www.trackplus.de/home/download.php,…

[Christian Boos]

So why don't you point and click one of those, then? Certainly because of some new feature that Trac has :)

More seriously, installing on Windows is really easy, at least if you use TracStandalone.

All you need is:

• Python (ActiveState has an installer)
• PySqlite (there's an installer, check that wiki page)
• ClearSilver (there's an installer, check that wiki page)
• and Trac (there's also an installer, see TracDownload#Windowsinstaller)

If you need Apache, check the ​XAMPP project.

But the goal is indeed to reduce external dependencies, and this is going to happen:

• we think about ditching ClearSilver in the near future (see milestone:0.11)
• Python 2.5 will be shipped with PySqlite (the new sqlite3 module, yay!) and will also have ElementTree, which might be useful if we use some XML-based templating engine like Kid.

[anonymous]

Good point for the ClearSilver ditch.

So how do I run tracd in win32?

cmd
cd C:\Program Files\Python2.4
python.exe Script\tracd ...

OK, win32 is the pain. As ClearSilver does not compile on cygwin, it is maybe easier to install the win32 version and use a cygwin wrapper to fire python. Here is a quick one:

#!/bin/sh
cygstart cmd "/c set TMP=C:/Temp && c:\progra~1\python2.4\python.exe $* && pause || pause"

[coderanger]

Running something under Win32 is different from running it under Cygwin. Cygwin in general has many problem, and you may want to look in to Interix as a better option.

[Christian Boos]

Let's say this is OK now, as we have now ClearSilver package anymore (but Genshi) and SetupTools for the dependencies.

[Nils Maier <MaierMan@…>]

ClearSilver is indeed a PITA.

I just managed to build a py2.5-win32 egg for it that seems to work. Involved a lot of patching and guessing :p
Linked it from the ClearSilver wiki page.