hjw kirjoitti: > I am working on some plugins for Trac and am stuck using a windows > machine. All of my previous python work has been on a mac / linux > machine. I need some help on how to get things set up. > > Should I be using cygwin and install python under that, or should I do > the windows install of python and setup the virtualenv that way? > > My editor of choice is vim, which I've installed via cygwin. > > One of the reasons that I'm stuck on a pc is that I need to be able to > connect to an (MS)SQLServer database. I looked around for drivers/ > connectors that I could use to connect remotely from my Mac but was > having trouble finding ones / instructions for making them work. > > Ultimately the trac install and the plugin will be running on a > windows server where the sqlServer resides, so it seemed to make sense > to do the devel on a windows box, where the drivers are built-in. > > Any help?
I've done most of my Trac development in Windows using two tools: Notepad++ for editor + tracd for smaller changes and for bigger developing I've used Eclipse PyDev which setup is described in t.e.o wiki. Reason for Eclipse is very good debugging and code completition. Saves time and nerves. Python is plain win32 version and works pretty well. Most of packages are available in win32 prebuilt format too if needed. And there is only few times I've had some troubles with easy_install. Sometimes need to compile something natively I needed to install mingw32 toolchain but that was an minor inconvience. I've tried to keep out from cygwin since it's not native and not "natural" way to work in Windows. About mssql... Could ODBC help? Of course you don't get all fine features of mssql but that could help at least a bit... And IIRC mssql doesn't have very good support for sqlite "text" type. So if you're trying to build backend you might need to come up with some intelligent solution. -- Jani Tiainen --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Trac Users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/trac-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
