I would highly, highly recommend ubuntu for anything python related if
you can. Worst case scenario run a vm from windows or open a cygwin
shell to an ubuntu development server. Anytime you need something
just do apt-get install blah.
Noah
On 3/13/07, Robc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I am currently attempting to give turbogears a try for developing
> applications. I was attracted originally by the x-platform
> possibilities of python/turbogears but my experiences so far have left
> me wondering if windows is a viable platform for these tools.
>
> First problem encountered was attemting to install PySQLite while
> running through the 20 minute Wiki tutorial.
>
> easy_install PySQLite
> gave error - The .NET framework SDK needs to be installed.
>
> After some research on Google found that I need VS 7.1 installed to
> create Python extensions. I have VS 2005 but this doesn't seem to
> work. Found some workarounds using some hacks using mstoolkit but
> seemed like a lot of messing around for an uncertain result. Not
> really filled with confidence that the author of the work around
> admitted abandoning windows as a dev platform for Python due to the
> many problems.
>
> Decided to instead use MySQL database which I already have installed.
> Edited dev.cfg to use this.Then got the following problem.
>
> tg-admin sql sql
> No module named MySQLdb
>
> Some research identified that I need this module for Python to talk to
> MySQL.
>
> Then;
>
> easy_install MySQLdb
> Could not find a suitable distribution for
> Requirement.parse('MySQLdb')
>
> At this point I have started to lose the will to live.
>
> It shouldn't be this difficult to run through a simple tutorial to
> evaluate a development tool.
>
> If you have some experience of getting turbogears functioning on
> windows please point me in the right direction.
>
> Thanks in advance
> Rob
>
>
> >
>
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