nevow attempts to use pkg_resources to find the formless css file upon
import, if pkg_resources is available. unfortunately using pkg_resources
to find files is not supported if the files are being loaded from a zip
archive (i.e. only source and egg), and further py2exe uses a zip bundle
for all the code and dependent libraries. hence having both pkg_resources
and nevow built into an exe causes nevow to explode upon import.
this tells py2exe not to link pkg_resources into the target, so that
this behaviour isn't stimulated. the side effect being that pkg_resources
isn't available.
there are many and various fiddly details that were involved in this process
on mountain view. This is a stripped down version of the build process used
there. there's hence a good chance that one or two necessary details got
stripped down through the cracks.
this provides a py2exe setup.py to build a tahoe.exe and a tahoesvc.exe
the former is equivalent to bin/tahoe, but without the start/stop commands.
the latter is a windows service that instantiates a client whose basedir
is found in the registry.
