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[Dick Hollenbeck <dick@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 04/27/2013 10:21 AM, Brian Sidebotham wrote:
> On 22 April 2013 17:47, Dick Hollenbeck <dick@xxxxxxxxxxx <mailto: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


Thank you for your help and talent.

I was going to say "you da man" again, but well, after last week it would have been
nothing but anti-climatic.


Dick



> 
> 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.
>