Transitioning from Linux to Windows

[Thomas Jollans]

On 05/06/17 00:35, chitturk at uah.edu wrote:
> It is not difficult (for me) - I developed the scripts to analyze files created by two different linux boxes (why two boxes is a longer story) (these are linux machines connected to gene sequencers) - the users are likely going to be fairly naive when it comes to running/using programs - and while the files can be transferred to the windows machine and then analyzed/examined, was trying to see if the windows machines can be used as simply a front end (no file transfers/etc) - but yes, it is indeed a solution that can be implemented - get the files over, run the script on windows machines (even as it makes me nervous to run scripts on windows systems - with or without anaconda - I am so used to being in the Linux environment that dealing with windows makes me nervous :(

I see. Well, if you're going to be building a user-friendly user
interface anyway, it shouldn't make much of a difference (development
work load wise) whether you use web technologies (as discussed here),
Tkinter, PyQt, or something else, unless you're already familiar with
one of them.

(if you're still toying with the idea of hacking together something with
PuTTy and the users SSHing in from Windows, then a command line script
on the user's PC might actually be more user-friendly...)




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> On Sunday, June 4, 2017 at 5:05:49 PM UTC-5, Thomas Jollans wrote:
>> On 04/06/17 22:56, I wrote:
>>> I was looking for the "simplest" possible solution to take a script that runs on a Linux box and figure out a way to have it run from a windows client 
>>
>> Care to comment on why getting the script to run on Windows directly is
>> so difficult? I'm sure you can build something that does the job with
>> Django/Flask/whatever, but it doesn't sound like it's necessarily the
>> simplest solution.
>>
>>
>>>> On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 2:41 AM, Michael Torrie wrote:
>>>>> I'm confused why you would need to ssh anywhere.  Command-line programs
>>>>> in Python should work perfectly fine in Windows and work about the same
>>>>> as on Linux, if you wrote them in a portable way.  I don't understand
>>>>> the need to complicate things with ssh, django, x2go, or any of the
>>>>> other suggestions here.  I also don't understand why you'd need the
>>>>> Anaconda distro.  Why won't standard Python from python.org work?
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