One more suggestion, a-la virtual machines: I know you mentioned having to work in Cygwin, but if the plan is to deploy on CentOS, then that's just trying to push a camel through a cat-door... I'll leave the explanation of that to your imagination...
Anyhow, I have recently bought an account at a VM hosting service called Linode (http://www.linode.com) for dealing with this very sort of problem, and I have to say, I am *extremely* impressed with it's performance, ease of use, and flexibility. If you can at all swing it, do the work on a Linode - you can buy a VM and have a CentOS system up and running *literally* within 5 minutes (that was my experience) and you can tear it down and rebuild with a simple web interface. SHAMELESS PLUG: If you do go that route, please go ahead and use my referral key - it nets me a $20 credit, and you get one to use yourself! http://www.linode.com/?r=b161a9ad6b331a7bd720740fce197ee017bf4fe1 -- -- Steve Scaffidi <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

