On 2 February 2015 at 18:48, Glyph Lefkowitz <gl...@twistedmatrix.com> wrote: > > On Feb 2, 2015, at 4:16 AM, Adi Roiban <a...@roiban.ro> wrote: > > Hi, > > Is this wiki page still valid? > > http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/wiki/Windows > > I saw that it was not updated in the last 5 years. > > > Yes, it's totally out of date. We should probably just delete the page.
Removed content and placed a link to WindowsBuilds. > I think that latest Visual Studio license is free to use for open > source projects. > > > This is true. Unfortunately this is not adequate for a Twisted build > environment. > > Python 2.7 was built against Visual Studio 2008, which means you need a copy > of VS2K8 to build extensions. > > Microsoft has released > <http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=44266> to make this > easier for people who are not professional developers. Unfortunately this > download is not quite adequate, because it does not include all the headers > that are necessary for, for example, building pywin32. My pypiwin32 build > <https://warehouse.python.org/project/pypiwin32/> will hopefully alleviate > this problem, but to have a from-scratch environment as one would want for a > buildbot (especially since we may need to be responsible for automated > builds of pypiwin32 itself) we still need full developer tools and not just > the restricted free stuff. Thanks for the info, Maybe it should go as an update to http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/wiki/WindowsBuilds#OFFICIAL Looks like current wiki page is out of date.. it talks about python 2.4 and 2.5 I have in plan to build Twisted from scratch for Windows so I can validate the wiki page and maybe update it. > My project/company can donate virtual machines. We will host them and > our sysadmin will take care of their uptime. > > > Would you be able to provide external administrative access so that members > of the project can access and maintain it as necessary? We have had a > recurring problem with donated hosting resources, even those with overall > very good uptime, being inaccessible at critical times, such as sprints. > > We have a Proliant G5 2xQuad Core Xeon server which is idle at our UK > office. It has UPS and dedicated RAID batteries. > > > Is that machine running a hypervisor or host OS we could have access to? > More donated hardware frees up our existing donated hardware and cloud > resources to run other things :). For now, we can only provide root access to the VMs and not to the VirtualBox host. > We have donated 2 Linux VMs in the past but they were never used, so > we have stop them. > > > Really, the most serious problem we have is a lack of administrative / > operational resources, less so than hardware. Don't get me wrong, hardware > is useful! But a couple of hours of a sysadmin's time every month would be > even more so, because that would let us actually use all the servers that > folks have offered :). I understand and I am fully aware of the effort required to maintain the infrastructure. I can help with the buildbot as I maintain a multi-OS / multi-project buildbot installation for my project with more than 20 slaves and lot of builders on each slave. Cheers, -- Adi Roiban _______________________________________________ Twisted-Python mailing list Twisted-Python@twistedmatrix.com http://twistedmatrix.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twisted-python
