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[{"user_id": 19880, "stars": [], "topic_id": 39971, "date_created": 1308659384.098356, "message": "Also, the typical symbolic linking stuff is not as easy (I think NTFS can do hard links but not symbolic and even that is tricky).", "group_id": 81, "id": 1447670}, {"user_id": 19880, "stars": [], "topic_id": 39971, "date_created": 1308659130.230552, "message": "While the most typical configuration I've seen is Linux, Postgres, Python, and gunicorn/nginx, @andiebs asked about WAMP (where I assume the P is Python).", "group_id": 81, "id": 1447650}, {"user_id": 19880, "stars": [], "topic_id": 39971, "date_created": 1308659220.5696249, "message": "If you are using MySQL (what I'll assume the M is and not MSSQL), There is less accuracy when you use GeoDjango (or has that since been resolved).", "group_id": 81, "id": 1447660}, {"user_id": 32294, "stars": [], "topic_id": 39971, "date_created": 1308660252.2619491, "message": "The Windows filesystem may be none UTF-8...", "group_id": 81, "id": 1447741}, {"user_id": 281, "stars": [], "topic_id": 39971, "date_created": 1308751362.603606, "message": "for the most part Django and python are pretty good about being cross platform, the biggest things you'll probably run into are third party apps that rely on how the filesystem or processes work in more unixy systems", "group_id": 81, "id": 1457164}, {"user_id": 11592, "stars": [{"date_created": 1308905081.7472169, "user_id": 12817}], "topic_id": 39971, "date_created": 1308896254.0217719, "message": "running anything on windows is a one big gotcha. bites me every time... ):", "group_id": 81, "id": 1474822}, {"user_id": 12817, "stars": [], "topic_id": 39971, "date_created": 1308905159.0522721, "message": "@SeanOC For those situations you can use something like Cygwin, but last time I had Windows on my desktop (a long time ago) that was a huge PITA itself.", "group_id": 81, "id": 1475225}, {"user_id": 35994, "stars": [], "topic_id": 39971, "date_created": 1308977366.499157, "message": "I use django on windows its not too bad. I just use everything 32bit even though I have a 64 bit machine and I have had good luck. I am using pycharm now for the IDE after netbeans dropped python support. I am using django 1.3 and python 2.6", "group_id": 81, "id": 1482827}, {"user_id": 281, "stars": [], "topic_id": 39971, "date_created": 1309013073.0393851, "message": "@adambrenecki cygwin can help, but there are still many situations where it can't (e.g. cygwin can't change window's process/threading model)", "group_id": 81, "id": 1484289}, {"user_id": 1147, "stars": [], "topic_id": 39971, "date_created": 1309146099.189347, "message": "Except for the usual OS religious ferver you will encounter, I've never had any problems getting Django working on Windows. Most things that require compiling are already available pre-compiled (PIL, Psycopg2, etc) and if you prefer to compile, you can.", "group_id": 81, "id": 1492642}, {"user_id": 37199, "stars": [], "topic_id": 39971, "date_created": 1309338414.26563, "message": "Ensure you always use forward slashes in file system paths (or os.path.join) . If you use windows backslashes your code wont port well", "group_id": 81, "id": 1515830}]