On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 10:45 +0000, Paul Moore wrote: > On 7 November 2014 15:46, Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > To that end, I'd like to get an idea of what sort of access to Windows > > a typical Unix developer would have. > > Thanks to all who contributed to this thread. > > Based on the feedback, I think it's going to be useful to provide two > options. First of all, an EC2 AMI that can be used by people without > access to a local Windows system. While other cloud providers are a > possibility, EC2 provides a free tier (for the first year) and is > well-known, so it's probably the easiest to get started with (at least > it was for me!) Also, I will provide a script that can be used to > automatically build the environment on a newly-installed machine. The > idea is that you can use this on a Windows VM (something that a number > of people have said they have access to). > > The script may be usable on an existing machine, but it's hard to make > it robust, as there are too many failure modes to consider (software > already installed, configuration and/or permission differences, etc). > So while such use may be possible, I probably won't consider it as > supported.
Thanks Paul for going through this! Looking forward to the link/code. holger > Thanks again, > Paul > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - distutils-...@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig > -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
