[darcs-users] Issues with Windows 7

Eric Kow kowey at darcs.net
Mon May 25 09:41:07 UTC 2009


On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 22:20:55 -0700, John Horigan wrote:
> Is anyone using darcs successfully under Windows 7? I have not been able 
> to pull my source files into my recently created Windows 7 system. Yet 
> the very same darcs command, on the same machine (a Macbook Pro) works 
> fine if I boot into Mac OS. I disabled Data Execution Protection on the 
> darcs binary but it made no difference. The error messages look like 
> this:

Thanks for the report, John.
Any idea if this affects other versions of Windows as well?

Salvatore: I don't suppose you have Windows 7 installed anywhere?

> C:\Users\John\Documents\Projects>darcs -v
> 2.2.1 (release)
>
> C:\Users\John\Documents\Projects>darcs get http://www.contextfreeart.org/repos/C
> ontextFree3.0beta CF3
>
> darcs failed:  Failed to download URL 
> http://www.contextfreeart.org/repos/ContextFree3.0beta/_darcs/patches/20090315163821-8c8b1-0143c2d08d2c240f87bbc7c6121f220f9a37de28.gz 
> : Couldn't connect to server
> Exception thrown by an atexit registered action:
> ./_darcs/patches/ 
> 20050416212357-5505d-928d6ef532266bf76281fa6bea0aeac3e3826ec6.gz- 
> new_608387a8fbe20fb97611fdad2d8feb48: removeFile: permission denied  
> (Permission denied)
> Exception thrown by an atexit registered action:

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