Brian, Thanks again for helping here!
Two additional experience stories on why MSDN is valuable for those of working on the Python language: - Some of us otherwise don't run Windows devices, but would like to support Windows, across potentially a range of versions and natural languages — and their encodings. In particular, we have used MSDN to ensure that Jython runs quite reasonably well on Windows. (This was a big focus in the Jython 2.7.0 release in fact, and continues to be the case.) - I also used an Excel download from MSDN to verify that Jython code going against Apache POI (https://poi.apache.org/) worked correctly with both Windows and Excel; and therefore was able to write up this experience with Josh Juneau for an article in the Nov/Dec 2015 issue of Java Magazine. - Jim On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 9:18 AM, Steve Dower <steve.do...@python.org> wrote: > On 15Aug2018 0650, Brian Curtin wrote: > >> This will give you access to Microsoft's Developer Network, which >> includes access to things like Visual Studio and Windows licenses that we >> can use for working on Python. >> > > Just to clarify one thing: you don't need a special license to get Visual > Studio Community Edition to work on Python, even within a big company - > it's free for open source work, and has everything we need. > > But request the MSDN Subscription anyway. It looks good to have a lot of > demand coming from the Python community :) (plus it should include a chunk > of Azure time if you need VMs, and probably some VSTS bonuses these days > though I haven't checked that). > > Thanks for everyone's work on Python! >> > > +1, and thanks Brian for continuing to coordinate this! > > Cheers, > Steve > _______________________________________________ > python-committers mailing list > python-committers@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-committers > Code of Conduct: https://www.python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ >
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