[Monotone-devel] Re: No windows buildbot?

[Lapo Luchini]

Stephen Leake wrote:
> I've got Cygwin installed, so I'm hoping the Unix instructions will
> "just work"; so far they have. More later.

What stopped me in the past (together with a general lack of time) is 
the fact that I'd like such a bot to use a separated user privileges and 
was not very obvious how to do that (though cygrunsrv should help in 
setting it up as a system service); and the fact that I don't know twist 
(nor Python) so doing something non-standard wasn't really easy.

If I will try it again in the future I'll probably avoid the problem 
altogether using a QEMU-hosted Windows installation (that would also be 
useful to create new CygWin packages, as my last Windows box is 
currently dead... and won't have time to try and revive it for a bit).

    Lapo