winpysetup 1.1: easy setup of multiple python versions on a clean windows system

[Anthon van der Neut]

I am happy to announce the availability of a new version of winpysetup

changes:
- this version is capable of generating itself by setting up
  the necessary Python 2.3 version and running py2exe
- minimal run time environment (removed code inherited from original
  project)
- test on appropriate .exe version fron winpysetup.py
- 2.7.10 release candidate url replaced by final. Which is now the
  default for which the utilities are installed.
- tested on WinXP 64
- added download targets for Cygwin, with an example project for
  installing cygwin including ssh server  (currently only tested on
  Win XP 64 without firewall)


version 1.1 dd 2015-05-25

Winpysetup ( https://bitbucket.org/ruamel/winpysetup/ ) allows setting
up a clean testing environment on Windows for multiple python versions
without downloading and installing MSI installers, prerequisites, all
the time waiting for the last to finish in order to click a few options
to start the next install.

- install Windows (or clone your clean Windows Virtual Machine)
- Download winpysetup.exe and start it.
  ( https://bitbucket.org/ruamel/winpysetup/downloads/winpysetup.exe )
- Once the program is done (now is a good time to make another snapshot
  if you run Windows in a VM), open a new Command Prompt (to get the
  change in PATH) and change to a directory without spaces in the path
  (e.g. C:\src).
- Run: hg clone --insecure https://hg@bitbucket.org/ruamel/minimal
- Change to the minimal directory and run tox.
- Watch how tox invokes py.test succesfully against Python
2.7/2.6/3.3/3.4 and pypy (you can of course run tox immediately on your
own, more interesting, code as well).

Installed items include: pip, easy_install, mercurial, tox, detox,
py.test and the Visual C compiler for Python 2.7 (e.g. needed for mercurial)

Special hooks can change the behavior of the installer. In particular: -
the list of python versions to install can be easily extended/reduced -
the list of default packages to install can be extended/reduced

winpysetup has been testen on:

    WinXP with Service Pack 2 (32 and 64 bit)
    Windows 7 (32 and 64 bit)

Feedback is welcome, in particular if tested on other Windows
environments to which I currently don't have access.