I just submitted a Mellon Award for Tech Collaboration nomination for the Python Buildhaus. What's that, you ask?

The Python Buildhaus is a project to systematically build, test and release Open Source Python packages on Windows, Mac OS X, and a wide array of other UNIX architectures and operating systems (see snakebite.org for list). In addition to providing machine access, software support, and process support, we hope to create a set of best practices and process documentation to help the community address cross-platform compatibility issues. We will also build tools to extend the impact of this effort beyond Michigan State by providing longer-lasting developer resources, e.g. tools to auto-build Python eggs and installers across multiple platforms.

This will be an open resource for the Python community.

See the Python Buildhaus and our proposal.

This is basically an attempt to use Snakebite to push specifically to help with the cross-platform distribution problem.

--titus