On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 10:42 PM Marco Ceppi <[email protected]>
wrote:

> There are two things that need to be done. The first, we need the reactive
> framework to be ported to powershell - that way we can have charms written
> in powershell and compiled as such. I know the cloud base folks poked at
> that a bit in Gent during the Summit but I haven't heard much from there.
>
> The second, is two base layers. The first is a powershell base layer so
> you get the awesome powerhshell helpers cloudbase has created (like the
> python charm helpers). That way native power shell layers can be written.
> The second is to create a python-windows base layer, this would be the
> basic layer and then the necessary methods to install Python on the windows
> machine so that python layers work properly.
>
> Some of this we can pilot ourselves, (mostly the python-windows layer) -
> some of the team is sprinting so I'll add that as a stretch goal. The
> powershell native features we'll need help and I admit I've done a terrible
> job keeping up with the cloudbase folks who have been invaluable as a
> windows + juju resource thus far.
>

Thanks, Marco. FWIW, I had imagined an MVP just as Stuart described: add
the Windows bootstrap scripts (install.ps1|bat|cmd, etc.), which should
just need to install Python and then defer to the reactive framework. Going
full Powershell support sounds ideal, but not what I'm after.

Cheers,
Andrew


> Marco
>
> On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 7:46 AM Rick Harding <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> I know that Gabriel and some of the CloudBase folks seemed interested in
>> layers and possibly some tooling with powershell. I'm not sure how far that
>> went but I thought they were experimenting during the charmer's summit.
>> That would help with a charm build on windows, but not for some common code
>> between both operating systems.
>>
>> An interesting thing is how much setup and how ootb the Ubuntu on Windows
>> needs. If it's working out of the box, it might be an interesting move for
>> us and our tools that Windows users could get a Linux experience. I guess
>> that it won't be ideal though as I'm not sure what the server side plans
>> around that work is.
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 3:18 AM Andrew Wilkins <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I would like to write a charm that should be mostly identical on Windows
>>> and Linux, so I think it would make sense to have common code in the form
>>> of a layer.
>>>
>>> Is anyone working on getting "charm build", layers, and friends to work
>>> with Windows workloads? If not, I may look into it myself.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Andrew
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