[Distutils] Call for information - What assumptions can I make about Unix users' access to Windows?

[Paul Moore]

On 9 November 2014 12:21, Tim Golden <mail at timgolden.me.uk> wrote:
> I think the OP was speaking not so much about having the technical
> wherewithal to use RDP but rather about the experience of RDP vs SSH.

That was certainly my understanding. The key issue for me is to try to
make the process of just running "pip wheel myproject" or "pip wheel
git+https://github.com/me/myproject" as simple and painless as
possible for people without Windows experience.

That's somewhat optimistic, because if the command fails with an
error, the developer is still going to need to work out how to debug
why the code isn't portable, etc. But that's a whole different
situation, and well out of scope.

> The
> difficulty is that Windows doesn't really "think" in ssh. I believe there
> are (third-party) mechanisms to provide ssh-like access, but I don't know
> how successful they really are.

Yeah, that's where things like cygwin probably won't work well,
because you don't get the "normal" Windows environment. But it might
be possible - after all, see above - it's really only a few simple
commands we need to support.

Paul