The process of developing (anything, really) on Windows can be quite cumbersome compared to linux. In particular, when developing Python extentions or debugging programs that embed python, it is often useful to be able to step through python's source code or run under the debug version of Python.
For a user unfamiliar with the subtlies of building python, and also for easily replicating build environments on fresh windows installations, a better method was desired.
Given a barebones windows install, without any dependancies except for VS 2008, download and build python (release and debug) and install easy_install and pip.
Windows has no command line method to download executables from the internet. As such, this project packages wget.exe. It also cannot natively extract tar.bz2 files, which the Python source resides in. Thus, this also bundles tar.exe and bunzip2.exe.
These binaries are from the http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ project. Specifically, they were acquired on 2012-02-05 from http://sourceforge.net/projects/unxutils/files/unxutils/current/UnxUtils.zip/download in the file UnxUtils.zip dated 2007-03-01.
Download & Build:
git clone git://github.com/CBWhiz/buildpy.git
cd buildpy
buildpy.cmd
Install to system:
util\system_install.cmd -v C:\Python27