HPH, note that if you stay within Python your code will run just fine cross-plat. If you want to use some Windows specific stuff, you can, but that should be easily isolatable.
Also if you use PTVS with the "Integrated Shell" version of Visual Studio, you don't pay a penny for anything. Will I be happy if this helps sell a few copies of VS - yes... it'll persuade mgmt to let our little project to continue... but in the big picture, it'll be a round off error for VS sales.
as best I can (while running between meetings)! Thanks for all your comments & questions so far.
Background info:
PTVS is basically a 2 person (1 dev, 1 test) effort. Recently we had a summer intern & a new dev has joined since to work on Big Data (think dryad/hadoop/etc) which is great. We've been running "under the radar" so to speak until now. The parts that we're actually most proud of are that we convinced mgmt to let us do this as Open Source, and more importantly under Apache 2.0. The fact we can actually accept code contributions back (may be a 1st?) is huge too. Not a big deal for most, but trust me, as staunch pro OSS guys, it was a big deal & took a lot of work to accomplish...
Thanks in advance & on to answering questions...
PS Just updated the project page w a couple of videos to give you an overview. Excuse the cheesy production, we don't exactly have a marketing dept.
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HPH, note that if you stay within Python your code will run just fine cross-plat. If you want to use some Windows specific stuff, you can, but that should be easily isolatable.
Also if you use PTVS with the "Integrated Shell" version of Visual Studio, you don't pay a penny for anything. Will I be happy if this helps sell a few copies of VS - yes... it'll persuade mgmt to let our little project to continue... but in the big picture, it'll be a round off error for VS sales.
as best I can (while running between meetings)! Thanks for all your comments & questions so far.
Background info:
PTVS is basically a 2 person (1 dev, 1 test) effort. Recently we had a summer intern & a new dev has joined since to work on Big Data (think dryad/hadoop/etc) which is great. We've been running "under the radar" so to speak until now. The parts that we're actually most proud of are that we convinced mgmt to let us do this as Open Source, and more importantly under Apache 2.0. The fact we can actually accept code contributions back (may be a 1st?) is huge too. Not a big deal for most, but trust me, as staunch pro OSS guys, it was a big deal & took a lot of work to accomplish...
Thanks in advance & on to answering questions...
PS Just updated the project page w a couple of videos to give you an overview. Excuse the cheesy production, we don't exactly have a marketing dept.
PTVS - Core editing experience : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CoGsSlrxKk
PTVS - Profiling : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCx7rlPyEzE
ftp://ftp.research.microsoft.com/pub/tr/TR-2005-18 4.pdf
published last year.