Windows support

[mottosso]

Hey Chad, just happened to find your fork here, are you working with Justin on this? :)

I also noticed mentions of Windows in some of your commits, are you working on getting this up and running on Windows? I'd be interested in helping you with that.

[chadmv]

Hi Marcus. Unfortunately, Justin and crew can't help due to employment agreements. So it's just me right now! I just started up a couple days ago and since I work in all 3 platforms, I started trying to get the development environment up in all 3. Windows is still in progress. The Python client setup.py needs some love to work on Windows. I would welcome any help!

[mottosso]

Ah, I see. Spoke with Justin about it a while back and we tried finding a repo that was still available since they closed-sourced it but couldn't. I thought this was a re-open-sourcing of that repo.

Do you think the work we do here could be a problem for the original team?

[chadmv]

No I don't believe so because I started from one of the handful of forks that were already on github. And I spoke with Justin before starting.

[justinfx]

Hey guys. So the client support should be pretty easy since thats just a matter of getting the setup.py to find boost/thrift to build the client. The client code itself doesn't need anything special beyond that.

In order to run an rndaemon on windows, you would have to implement a windows-specific profile module which defines how to report the system information and state, and how to run a subprocess given its parameters. But you only would need a windows rndaemon if you intend to run windows render nodes.