[python-win32] Recommendations for releasing pywin32 without a local windows device?

[Mark Hammond]

Hey all,

   I'm in the process of moving countries for a couple of years and for 
the first time in - um - forever - will find myself without a physical 
Windows machine. It seems unlikely I'll actually need one other than for 
pywin32 builds and testing. My primary device will end up as an M2 
macbook pro supplied by work.

Options I see are:

* Lean into CI for releases - this is problematic because obscure 
html-help and mapi/exchange sdks are needed, and manually testing stuff 
still happens - but this might make sense for the longer term health of 
the project.

* VM on the macbook - but by all accounts, anything other than ARM 
doesn't really work well on the M chips, and as above re the SDKs etc, 
I'm not sure an ARM build environment will work in practice without 
losing functionality for x86 builds.

* Buy an x86-64 laptop - $1k probably gets me something good enough if 
I'm patient waiting for things to build.

* A hosted VPS.

The latter seems a bit easier and less things to carry around, but might 
actually be more expensive over ~2 years and more of a PITA than a local 
device. I've also no experience at all with this kind of environment.

Wondering what experience/anecdotes/thoughts y'all have for this?

Thanks,

Mark.
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