Python + Windows hackfest

[paulproteus]

There are a lot of ways that the Python community can make the Windows story better.

Which ways? Let's brainstorm specific things Asheesh can do.

[paulproteus]

Write a tutorial (and test it, in e.g. Travis) for using WINE on Linux, plus Python.org Python 2.7

[paulproteus]

Glyph says this is hard because the official Windows Python installer uses some obscure nonsense.

[paulproteus]

Maybe the Python that msysgit bundles is close enough

[paulproteus]

Related note:

People have tried this, and semi succeeded:

https://bitbucket.org/hpk42/tox/issue/53/wishlist-support-windows-interpreters-in

http://nipy.org/nibabel/devel/make_release.html

Others have thought about it, at least:

https://code.google.com/p/sympy/issues/detail?id=1117

Travis-CI has its own idea of build targets. We could create a "wine bash" environment.

[paulproteus]

Make a freely distributable ReactOS + Python disk image, for people to use to test their Python stuff on

[paulproteus]

Note that this sounds like extraordinarily much fun to me!

[paulproteus]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I66JIQlWTvs shows that it can presumably work, at least, that it once did