[Python-Dev] MSDN licenses available for python-dev (original) (raw)

Tim Golden mail at timgolden.me.uk
Mon Apr 19 15:00:52 CEST 2010

On 19/04/2010 13:33, Paul Moore wrote:

On 19 April 2010 11:47, Antoine Pitrou<solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:

Le Fri, 16 Apr 2010 08:01:54 -0500, Brian Curtin a écrit :

The recent threads on builds/installers for Mac and Windows reminded me of Steve Holden's push to get the python-dev team equipped via a connection with the Microsoft Open Source Technology Center. The OSTC team provides Microsoft Developer Network licenses to open source projects to assist them in better supporting Windows. I've talked with Steve (who passed the task to me) and the Microsoft folks, and they are happy to provide more licenses if needed. If you are interested in getting a copy of MSDN, please contact me off-list. Does it include a license for Windows itself? Does it allow me to install and run it in a VM? If so, I'm interested. Yes. Arguably that's the best thing about the MSDN licenses (particularly for non-Windows users, but even for us Windows users to set up "clean" VM environments).

For some reason I hadn't appreciated that this was the case. I'm in the process of negotiating [*] to repurpose an out-of-work server here as a buildbot and being able to install an O/S will smooth the negotiations considerably. I'm especially keen to get a buildbot running a Windows server OS rather than desktop.

TJG

[*] May come to nothing; don't hold your breath

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