On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 12:34 PM, Steve Dower <[email protected]> wrote: > I just joined up after the various discussions at PyCon and wanted to say > hi. (If you were also there and want to put a face/voice to the name, I did > the Visual Studio demo at one of the lightning talks.)
That was a very cool demo. > The main reason I want to get involved is the openly acknowledged lack of > Windows expertise that’s available. I work at Microsoft and part of my job > description is to contribute code/testing/time/documentation/help/etc. to > CPython. (I can also do testing/time/help for other projects, but > copyrightable artifacts are more complicated and, for now, not okay with our > lawyers.) > > > > I expect I’ll mainly be lurking until I can be useful, which is why I wanted > to start with this post. I’m pretty good with Windows, and I have direct > access to all the experts and internal mailing lists. So just shout out when > something comes up and I’ll be happy to clarify or research an answer. At the packaging panel, an issue was raised regarding issues with 32-bit and 64-bit windows packages. I don't remember the details. Were you there? If not, maybe someone can describe the issue here. Also an idea, fwiw: it would be awesome if MS provided something like travis-ci that executed tests on windows for open-source projects hosted in github (and other places like bitbucket, which I prefer). Maybe projects would start sporting "Windows: passing" buttons. :) Jim -- Jim Fulton http://www.linkedin.com/in/jimfulton _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
