From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kevin Smith Subject: Cygwin and Native MS Windows (was: Mercurial vs Updated git HOWTO for kernel hackers) Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 12:50:04 -0400 Message-ID: <42C17FBC.7030509@qualitycode.com> References: <42B9E536.60704@pobox.com> <20050623235634.GC14426@waste.org> <20050624064101.GB14292@pasky.ji.cz> <20050624130604.GK17715@g5.random> <42BC112C.1040009@qualitycode.com> <20050628150752.GC1275@pasky.ji.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: mercurial@selenic.com, Git Mailing List X-From: mercurial-bounces@selenic.com Tue Jun 28 18:46:09 2005 Return-path: Received: from waste.org ([216.27.176.166]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DnJCw-0000kk-2z for gcvmd-mercurial@gmane.org; Tue, 28 Jun 2005 18:45:10 +0200 Received: from waste.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by waste.org (8.13.4/8.13.4/Debian-3) with ESMTP id j5SGplH3007181; Tue, 28 Jun 2005 11:51:50 -0500 Received: from vulcan.rootr.net (deuterium.rootr.net [203.194.209.160]) by waste.org (8.13.4/8.13.4/Debian-3) with ESMTP id j5SGpfBR007157 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Tue, 28 Jun 2005 11:51:44 -0500 Received: from [192.168.15.101] (653221hfc195.tampabay.res.rr.com [65.32.21.195]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by vulcan.rootr.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E62B3C11; Tue, 28 Jun 2005 16:51:35 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050404) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en To: Petr Baudis In-Reply-To: <20050628150752.GC1275@pasky.ji.cz> X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new X-BeenThere: mercurial@selenic.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: mercurial.selenic.com List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: mercurial-bounces@selenic.com Errors-To: mercurial-bounces@selenic.com Petr Baudis wrote: > Dear diary, on Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 03:57:00PM CEST, I got a letter > where Kevin Smith told me that... > >>- Can run on (native) MS Windows >> (necessary for me because I often work on cross-platform projects) > > > I'd expect everything to work fine with Cygwin (or with only minor > problems easy to fix) or just any working bash + GNU coreutils > installation. Any issue with that? I don't see cygwin as being a reasonable option for a core tool like SCM. Cygwin is too large and invasive to expect Windows users to install and use it. For my own projects, native Windows operation is a requirement. Kevin