Looking for a Python-on-Windows person to help with SpamBayes

[olsongt at verizon.net]

s... at pobox.com wrote:
> I'm looking for some help with SpamBayes.  It can be short-term or
> long-term.  I've implemented some OCR capability based on the open source
> ocrad program that works reasonably well to extract text tokens from
> image-based spam.  Alas, I don't use Windows at all, so I can't make sure
> this stuff works on Windows.  None of the usual suspects in the SpamBayes
> development community have any free time at the moment.  Others are helping
> out, but they are user types, not programmer types, so the round trip
> between "this doesn't work", to "okay, try this" and back again is
> agonizingly slow.
>
> The bare requirements are:
>
>     * Able to program in Python on Windows (that is, remove my Unix-think
>       from the OCR bits of code)
>
>     * Use Outlook to read mail (so you can test the changes with the
>       SpamBayes Outlook plugin)
>
> If you can compile software under cygwin (the ocrad program builds fine
> under cygwin) and/or can create installers for Python-based Windows apps
> that would be a plus.
>
> If you can help out, please drop an email to spambayes-dev at python.org.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -- 

Does ocrad require the cygwin environment to run?