Hey all,
I'm in the process of moving countries for a couple of years and for
the first time in - um - forever - will find myself without a physical
Windows machine. It seems unlikely I'll actually need one other than for
pywin32 builds and testing. My primary device will end up as an M2
macbook pro supplied by work.
Options I see are:
* Lean into CI for releases - this is problematic because obscure
html-help and mapi/exchange sdks are needed, and manually testing stuff
still happens - but this might make sense for the longer term health of
the project.
* VM on the macbook - but by all accounts, anything other than ARM
doesn't really work well on the M chips, and as above re the SDKs etc,
I'm not sure an ARM build environment will work in practice without
losing functionality for x86 builds.
* Buy an x86-64 laptop - $1k probably gets me something good enough if
I'm patient waiting for things to build.
* A hosted VPS.
The latter seems a bit easier and less things to carry around, but might
actually be more expensive over ~2 years and more of a PITA than a local
device. I've also no experience at all with this kind of environment.
Wondering what experience/anecdotes/thoughts y'all have for this?
Thanks,
Mark.
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