Mixed Notes
I recently switched to using Grok with Cygwin on Windows based PCs - once you've got the Cygwin parts in place there is no problem to get Grok compiled with Python2.4 or Python2.5. Application startup is 10-20% faster btw. Integration with Eclipse is smooth, as you use the shell from Cygwin (buildout, paster, zopectl) and edit the code through the IDE -- recommended.
Update: There might be problems running virtualenv on Cygwin - check the comments [1] [2] at Ian Bickings blog for Cygwin quickfixes/patches.
A new release of the d2m.wsgiapp is available at PyPI. It now uses the new zope.publisher.paste module - this in fact makes the package shrink to a single module (25 lines), containing the paste.app_factory, a custom application object (dict), a customized GrokBrowserPublication object and no ZODB. The result is a bare-bones application environment, which atm has no ZMI and grok.admin views working and only accepts browser requests - just enough to run a grok.Application.
