[darcs-users] _real_ cygwin build?
Tuomo Valkonen
tuomov at iki.fi
Tue Mar 3 00:46:51 UTC 2009
On 2009-03-03, Trent W. Buck <trentbuck at gmail.com> wrote:
> Call me Mr. Silly, but why is a Cygwin version of Darcs preferable to a
> native binary? Last time I looked at Windows (which was, admittedly,
> about six years ago) cygwin was a bloated, messy pile of confusing and
> unweildy junk -- and that if you could get a utility (e.g. bash or grep)
> as a stand-alone .exe, it was *much* easier to deploy.
It's a big mess that _still_ fails to provide basic multi-byte
encoding/locale support. But I plan to use it as my LaTeX and
code "IDE" (Ion+joe[*]+etc.), and would prefer darcs to work
well with it, rather than with Windows itself. So let Cygwin
(or UWin or whatever) do all the path mangling etc., and give
me a version of darcs that thinks its running under *nix,
to work well with those tools.
[*] joe-editor.sf.net.
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