On Jul 1, 2009, at 18:25, [email protected] (Trent W. Buck) wrote:
Jason Dagit <[email protected]> writes:
I've lost track of the status of darcs on windows, but as I was just
setting up a windows box, looking for ways to make it more
"comfortable" I discovered:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/win-bash/
I haven't tried it (I think I'm going to install and Linux on this
machine), but I suspect this may provide an sh replacement on windows
(for running the test suite) that doesn't require all of cygwin or
msys.
Perhaps this leads to simpler dev environment for our windows
hackers?
Perhaps all you need these days to dev darcs on windows AND run the
tests these days is a recent ghc the above bash? Or maybe while I
wasn't looking it became even easier than that.
You will probably also need POSIX-compliant core utilities -- things
like sed(1). Perhaps busybox has been ported to Windows' native
POSIX.1
implementation?
I forgot to reply back but, I tried it and I wasn't that impressed. At
least for interactive use it does not appear to behave correctly on
vista. I could run some commands and not others.
It may work fine for noninteractive use. I've never looked for a
busybox port.
Jason
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