[pypy-dev] pypy on Windows

[Maciej Fijalkowski]

On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 8:01 PM, Brian Curtin <brian at python.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 11:06, Massa, Harald Armin <chef at ghum.de> wrote:
>> Hello pypy-ers,
>>
>> as a lurker on this mailing list I often read information as in "I do not
>> have a Windows development system" or similiar.
>>
>> I know that Microsoft a) is a PSF member and b) was giving
>> MSDN-Subscriptions to Python Developers and c) also has its own cloud called
>> azure  d) has an rather active internal Python community
>>
>> So, was Microsoft allready asked along the lines of "would you be so kind to
>> provide us with a cloudycloud running Visual C compilers, can pypy has
>> cheesburger ?"
>>
>> Or is that be a good thing that is still to do?
>
> It's really more of an issue of personnel, as Maciej points out. I
> have a contact at Microsoft (through CPython) who is willing to help
> us get what we need to support Python on Windows, whether it's tools
> or help solving problems on the platform. If you solve the problem of
> attracting more Windows developers, I could help facilitate discussion
> with Microsoft to get something like Azure setup.

Well, it's about the volunteer personnel. I think we can find people
who would be willing to do it for money.

Cheers,
fijal