...mmm... Dan, I think it can be easier to teach him to develop on a live-cd linux then to remotely fight with windows.
Well, that's his call I guess. I'd hate to boot out of my regular environment to develop. Perhaps running inside a VM, but if he's not familiar with Linux, it might be uncomfortable.
On 32-bit Windows, at least, this is really not that hard. While writing up the Win32 setup procedures on the wiki the other day, I created a clean Windows (32-bit XP) VM and did the install quickly and successfully in less than an hour.
I'll also expect some difficulties with editor and CR/LF formats BTW
Nah, any editor worth its weight in electrons will do this correctly :)
I suppose that is one nice thing about the new LiveCD though.. should be perfectly adequate for development as well. Maybe we should ask Bob to include mercurial in the next spin of it so that folks can clone the repository without having to install another package?