On 20 November 2014 13:31, holger krekel wrote:
> Thanks Paul for going through this! Looking forward to the link/code.
Cheers - it's not forgotten, but real life's being a nuisance, so it's
on the back burner for a short while. I'll try to get something done
in a few weeks.
Paul
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On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 10:45 +, Paul Moore wrote:
> On 7 November 2014 15:46, Paul Moore wrote:
> > To that end, I'd like to get an idea of what sort of access to Windows
> > a typical Unix developer would have.
>
> Thanks to all who contributed to this thread.
>
> Based on the feedback, I
Ben Finney wrote:
> 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
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 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
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
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 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 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
