The CPAN has a concept called a development release that was created SPECIFICALLY to solve this problem.
As soon as there's a packaged tarball living at an arbitrary URL, any Strawberry machine can trivially just run the following to test it. pip http://url... Pack up a dev release and get the whole repository/branch thing out of the picture. Throw the dev release at CPAN, and the URL at #win32 and #padre, and you'll get an answer for "does it work" in a few hours. Adam K 2009/1/14 Eric Wilhelm <scratchcomput...@gmail.com>: > Possibly, but everything I've seen so far says the 0.31012 branch is > going to sit there until I setup the windows box and test it. And > that's not going to be any time soon.