diff --git a/packaging/win32/daily_build.bat b/packaging/win32/daily_build.bat
index cd73e76bfa..0afca3a1c6 100644
--- a/packaging/win32/daily_build.bat
+++ b/packaging/win32/daily_build.bat
@@ -3,5 +3,10 @@ rem It simply calls the actual MSYS Shell script to perform
 rem the daily build and then the tag builds.
 
 cd c:\soft\packaging
+
+rem Development build (daily)
 c:\msys\1.0\bin\sh.exe --login c:\soft\packaging\daily_build.sh
+rem Tags build (daily -- only tags that weren't built yet)
 c:\msys\1.0\bin\sh.exe --login c:\soft\packaging\build_tags.sh
+rem 2.4 branch build (weekly)
+c:\msys\1.0\bin\sh.exe --login c:\soft\packaging\daily_build.sh c:\soft-2.4\packaging
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/packaging/win32/weekly_build.bat b/packaging/win32/weekly_build.bat
deleted file mode 100644
index 6ca3e7155b..0000000000
--- a/packaging/win32/weekly_build.bat
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-rem This is the Windows Batch Script for the daily builds.
-rem It simply calls the actual MSYS Shell script to perform
-rem the daily build and then the tag builds.
-
-cd c:\soft-2.4\packaging
-c:\msys\1.0\bin\sh.exe --login c:\soft-2.4\packaging\daily_build.sh
diff --git a/packaging/win32/weekly_build.sh b/packaging/win32/weekly_build.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..af28c482c5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packaging/win32/weekly_build.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+#
+# Note: for this script to work, you need to make sure bash can
+#       find svn on your system. If it's not in the default
+#       Windows path, you will have to add it yourself, for
+#       example like this:
+#       - create a file /etc/profile.d/svn.sh
+#       - add this line: export PATH=/c/soft/svn/bin:$PATH
+#       (Use the real path to your svn installation, obviously)
+
+set -e
+
+# Only run this script on Monday night (first day of the week)
+if [ `date +%u` != 2 ] ; then exit ; fi
+
+function qpushd() { pushd "$@" >/dev/null; }
+function qpopd() { popd >/dev/null; }
+function unix_path() { echo "$*" | sed 's,^\([A-Za-z]\):,/\1,;s,\\,/,g'; }
+
+qpushd "$(dirname $(unix_path "$0"))"
+svn update
+./build_package.sh
+qpopd