build a binary for Windows on Linux, Solaris or Mac OSX?

[Skip Montanaro]

    Thomas> Did you use cygwin?

I have in the past, but I can't recall if when I used watch on Windows I was
running with the binary distro or a cygwin-compiled Python.

    Thomas> On Windows, sys.stderr works, and is usually connected to a
    Thomas> console window.  But "/dev/null" doesn't exist.  You could spell
    Thomas> it "NUL", or provide a Python implementation of a "bit sink".

This is what I checked in.

    Thomas> Next problem is that os.spawnvp() doesn't exist on Windows:

*sigh* I thought the spawn* routines originated in Windows...  I'll look
into this.

Thx,

Skip