> On Nov 7, 2014, at 10:46 AM, Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I'm in the process of developing an automated solution to allow users > to quickly set up a Windows box so that it can be used to compile > Python extensions and build wheels. While it can obviously be used by > Windows developers who want to quickly set up a box, my main target is > Unix developers who want to provide wheels for Windows users. > > To that end, I'd like to get an idea of what sort of access to Windows > a typical Unix developer would have. I'm particularly interested in > whether Windows XP/Vista is still in use, and whether you're likely to > already have Python and/or any development tools installed. Ideally, a > clean Windows 7 or later virtual machine is the best environment, but > I don't know if it's reasonable to assume that. > > Another alternative is to have an Amazon EC2 AMI prebuilt, and users > can just create an instance based on it. That seems pretty easy to do > from my perspective but I don't know if the connectivity process > (remote desktop) is a problem for Unix developers. > > Any feedback would be extremely useful. I'm at a point where I can > pretty easily set up any of these options, but if they don't turn out > to actually be usable by the target audience, it's a bit of a waste of > time! :-) > > Thanks, > Paul > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - distutils-...@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
As an *nix user I have a Windows 7 VM on my OS X machine that I can also dual boot into which I mostly use for playing games that won’t play on my OS X box natively. It does not have Python or any development tooling installed on it. I also have access to the cloud(tm) which is where I normally spin up a whatever-the-most-recent-looking-name Windows Server. --- Donald Stufft PGP: 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 DCFA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
