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[Brian Sidebotham <brian.sidebotham@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 22 April 2013 17:47, Dick Hollenbeck <dick@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> >>
> >> Yep, I understand. It is difficult. Thank-you for all your effort so
> >> far, you've put a tremendous amount of work into this project already!
> >>
> >> I see this as a nice stepping stone for those people anyway.
> >> Building this project in Linux is a joy - it basically just builds
> >> with no issues. Now that the standard response can simply be to tell
> >> someone on Windows to setup a VM with Ubuntu or something on to
> >> build the project means that more of those Windows developers should
> >> migrate to Linux.
> >>
> >> Best Regards, Brian.
> >
> >
> > You da man!
> >
> > Your willingness to help is taking a load off my mind.
> >
> >
> > I will look into google code.  Another draw there is their support of
> > hg, which is what the python team is using.  This might lower the
> > barrier to pulling stuff out.  But I will not forget your concern
> > about a permanent URL or FTP or HTTP for the cmake *.zip downloads.
>
>
> Brian, Miguel:
>
>
> Brian,
>
> I have setup the python a-mingw-us project on google code to a partial
> extent now, and it
> looks promising.
>
>   $ wget
> http://python-a-mingw-us.googlecode.com/files/Python-a-mingw-us-2.7.4-win64.zip
>   $ wget
> http://python-a-mingw-us.googlecode.com/files/Python-a-mingw-us-2.7.4-win32.zip
>
> Both work.
>
> I am expecting you to:
>
> a) prepare the NSIS packages and push them to google code.
>
> b) do the wxPython layering in the form of some kind of scripting, perhaps
> a CMake wrapper
> in the same vain as a-mingw-us' PythonExtensions.cmake file.
>
> c) fix up winbuilder to use wxPython.
>
> If any of these is too much, yell for help from others in the Windows clan.
>

Hi Dick,

Sorry for the delayed response, I'm just back from our honeymoon! :D

This all looks great - well done! There's no problem with sorting out the
points you've listed, so I'll get started now!

Best Regards, Brian.