use Salt to configure a pywin32 build environment

[vernondcole]

This PR adds a file which will link the pywin32 source repo with a sibling system which will provision a build machine capable of creating and testing a pywin32 release.

(Note: as of the "part 1" commit, the salt-bevy system is not yet able to do all of that. When it is ready, we anticipate adding a "part 2" commit, which will provide documentation. )

[mhammond]

Sorry for the delay Vernon - is this still something you want to happen? Is salt-bevy still in active development?

[vernondcole]

Yes, I am still working on it. My day job and construction of my new home have taken priority, so development has been slower than I expected.

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[Avasam]

I suppose the goal of this is to provide build dependencies that are missing on GitHub-provided environments ?
There's probably not a lot of those left considering all the support for old, obsolete, EOL and unusable technologies that have been removed recently.

[Avasam]

@vernondcole is this still relevant / something you want to do ?

[vernondcole]

mostly I want to have an environment where adodbapi can be fully tested -- that is, with multiple database engines. Maybe it can be done on Github, but I can't see how. So yes, I still want to do it.

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