I'm in the process of developing an automated solution to allow users
to quickly set up a Windows box so that it can be used to compile
Python extensions and build wheels. While it can obviously be used by
Windows developers who want to quickly set up a box, my main target is
Unix developers who wa
> On Nov 7, 2014, at 10:46 AM, Paul Moore wrote:
>
> I'm in the process of developing an automated solution to allow users
> to quickly set up a Windows box so that it can be used to compile
> Python extensions and build wheels. While it can obviously be used by
> Windows developers who want to
On Fri, 7 Nov 2014 15:46:36 +
Paul Moore wrote:
> I'm in the process of developing an automated solution to allow users
> to quickly set up a Windows box so that it can be used to compile
> Python extensions and build wheels. While it can obviously be used by
> Windows developers who want to q
> On 07 Nov 2014, at 16:46, Paul Moore wrote:
>
> I'm in the process of developing an automated solution to allow users
> to quickly set up a Windows box so that it can be used to compile
> Python extensions and build wheels. While it can obviously be used by
> Windows developers who want to qui
On Fri, Nov 07, 2014 at 03:46:36PM +, Paul Moore wrote:
> I'm in the process of developing an automated solution to allow users
> to quickly set up a Windows box so that it can be used to compile
> Python extensions and build wheels. While it can obviously be used by
> Windows developers who wa
Paul Moore writes:
> To that end, I'd like to get an idea of what sort of access to Windows
> a typical Unix developer would have. […] Ideally, a clean Windows 7 or
> later virtual machine is the best environment, but I don't know if
> it's reasonable to assume that.
It's difficult to say what “
Ben Finney wrote:
> Paul Moore writes:
>
>> To that end, I'd like to get an idea of what sort of access to Windows
>> a typical Unix developer would have. […] Ideally, a clean Windows 7 or
>> later virtual machine is the best environment, but I don't know if
>> it's reasonable to assume that.
>
On 7 November 2014 16:52, Ben Finney wrote:
> If I was required to provide packages for MS Windows, the only viable
> solutions would be those that don't involve me obtaining an MS Windows
> instance myself.
For that usage, an Amazon EC2 AMI sounds ideal, as the license costs
are covered by the A
Paul Moore writes:
> On 7 November 2014 16:52, Ben Finney wrote:
> > If I was required to provide packages for MS Windows, the only viable
> > solutions would be those that don't involve me obtaining an MS Windows
> > instance myself.
>
> For that usage […] the license costs […]
I didn't mentio
On 7 November 2014 17:17, Ben Finney wrote:
> Paul Moore writes:
>
>> On 7 November 2014 16:52, Ben Finney wrote:
>> > If I was required to provide packages for MS Windows, the only viable
>> > solutions would be those that don't involve me obtaining an MS Windows
>> > instance myself.
>>
>> For
Steve Dower writes:
> Ben Finney wrote:
> > The restrictions of the license terms make MS Windows an
> > unacceptable risk on any machine I'm responsible for.
>
> Just out of interest, which restrictions would those be?
It has been a long time since I bothered to read any of the numerous
license
On 7 November 2014 17:42, Ben Finney wrote:
>> Does this prevent you from creating a VM on a cloud provider on your
>> own account?
>
> If I need to accept restrictions such as the above, I don't see that the
> location of the instance (nor the fees charged) has any affect on these
> concerns. The
On 07.11.2014 16:46, Paul Moore wrote:
> Any feedback would be extremely useful. I'm at a point where I can
> pretty easily set up any of these options, but if they don't turn out
> to actually be usable by the target audience, it's a bit of a waste of
> time! :-)
I'm hosting two Windows 7 Ultimat
I have a couple languishing laptops that still have XP on them.
I have one desktop with Win7, used primarily for unittesting my modules (no dev tools beyond Python, although I should
get VS on it at some point).
--
~Ethan~
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