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NO! people hadn't issue with git (because we provided files in flash drives), main problem was BS. IMHO people should run bots in WMF Labs, not their home PC, and high proportion of bot operators are doing what is correct in my opinion. NO! there is a very long and simple manual in here: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Pywikipediabot/Installation
I was not there - but you should not simply neglect that there are serious issues with git under win. Please ask e.g. Xqt - as far as I know he was not able to set-up a properly working system for git review under win until today... which means we have lost one of our best and hardest-working developers just because git migration... that is bad!!
To make it clear I personally would like to just forget about win - but that is not very clever, even more since we had a hard time during git migration just to keep all the stuff running for win users. To me it looks very like MWF did forget about win developers...
Just to have this mentioned once more - you all know that there is still the possibility to checkout the code by svn (thanks to github)! Please confer [1] as all git repos are mirrored to github and they allow also svn access to the data. Hope this helps for regular users.
[1] https://github.com/search?q=%40wikimedia+pywikibot
Greetings DrTrigon