(Sorry, not 100% sure of the credit for this quote, Vitaly, perhaps?) > >> If your software runs on Windows, of you think it might run on Windows > >> in the future, maybe consider writing simple Python scripts for > >> platform-independent tasks rather than makefiles and shell scripts.
Maybe try SCons or CMake for cross-platform functionality? Chris: > > Are you assuming that every Windows system has Python, but that you > > can't get make or bash? Because neither half of that is true. I've > > happily used makefiles on Windows, and these days, bash is as easy to > > get hold of as Python is. Thomas: > That's why I say "a bit of a hassle". You can get a MSYS set up (whether > from Git for Windows or otherwise). You can get it to play nice with the > right Python installation and the Python scripts you presumably want to > call from the Makefile. But all of that is a bit of a hassle. I thought recent versions of Win10 had a full Ubuntu subsystem. Before that, doesn't something like Cygwin still exist/work? Disclaimer: I am not a Windows person, and managed to avoid it for my entire career. Skip -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list