[darcs-devel] [darcs #496] use putty on w32

[David Roundy]

On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 07:38:10PM -0400, Zooko via RT wrote:
> Darcs requires putty ssh w32, and will not work with openssh or cygwin
> ssh.  Therefore, darcs should invoke "plink.exe", not "ssh.exe", and the
> w32 install for darcs should not require the user to rename "plink.exe"
> to "ssh.exe" -- a step which makes users nervous.

If I can get confirmation that this is true--that darcs won't work with a
mingw openssh (which surprises me), then I think I'd accept a patch that
makes this change for windows.  But I'd prefer to get this confirmation
from one of our darcs windows developers (Will?).
-- 
David Roundy
http://www.darcs.net