I hate checking into a tag, but 2.8's Windows release
process has been dying from neglect, and I don't see
a saner way to proceed.  The 2.8b2 Windows installer
on zope.org was effectively built from this tag
after this patch was applied, although the 2.8b2
tarball on zope.org does not contain this patch.  If
you try to build a 2.8b2 Windows installer using the
2.8b2 tarball on zope.org as an input, this Windows bug
will return.

Mark Hammond's original checkin comment:

As at pywin32-204, we must ensure pywintypes is the first win32 module
imported in our process, otherwise we can end up with 2 pywintypesxx.dll
instances in our process resulting in:
TypeError: The object is not a PySECURITY_ATTRIBUTES object

2.8b2 was already released for non-Windows, but contains an
incorrect Zope version number in the Windows buildout.  Since
a Windows installer was never released for 2.8b2 (I'm trying
to do that now), there's no way to build one from the 2.8b2
tag without changing this part of its Windows buildout first.

- Note about the change

- Make it so webdav-source server is distinguishable from the default http server in the ZMI and event.log

inet-address default, which does not make a lot of sense for binding

      - Collector #1780: DateTime.strftime() now handles dates <= 1900 or
        >= 2038

without touching sys.path and without the help of imp.

something went wrong during execution of 'function'.

- docstring cleanup
- whitespace cleanup
- import cleanup

(Thanks to Dale Hirt for the patch).

and pushed reponsibility for closing the REQUEST down to the registry.

The Finder class is now used for the complete lib/python tree and has a blacklist instead of a whitelist for file extensions.
So there should no longer be a need to update setup.py if modules or files are added or removed in lib/python.
http://www.zope.org/Collectors/Zope/1776

fixed http://www.zope.org/Collectors/Zope/1507 (Entry #17, 1.) alias http://www.zope.org/Collectors/Zope/1728

switched back to ip=self.ip, simplified and fixed prepare() code
now we are down to 1 failing test on Windows

added test for http://www.zope.org/Collectors/Zope/1507 (Entry #17, 2.) alias http://www.zope.org/Collectors/Zope/1728

now 3 tests are failing on Windows

No functional changes.

Thanks to Sidnei da Silva.

reused more cleanly.