Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: darcs vs tla

[John A Meinel]

Thomas Lord wrote:
>     > From: Andrew Suffield <address@hidden>
>
>     > On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 12:51:35PM -0800, Alexey N. Solofnenko wrote:
>     > > For me a Windows support is much more important and in darcs world=20
>     > > Windows is a first class citizen. Unless you do the same people will=20
>     > > standardize on something else than tla.
>
>     > Yadda yadda yadda, free software is impossible, linux doesn't exist.
>
>     > It's empirically false. That line stopped being funny back in the
>     > 1990s (when it became blatantly apparent that no matter how many
>     > vendors you pay off, people will *not* shift from unix platforms).
>
>
> Heh.  
>
> It's also the case that the bar for "first class windows support"
> keeps getting lower and lower.   Many can and many more will be able
> to host virtual unix boxes on a windows environment: run arch there
> and cross mount the filesystem.   Bonus points if you can pop up X
> windows on your Windows screen.   This is a perfectly "first class"
> approach.  The network, however virtual, is the computing system, so
> to speak.
>
> With that approach, when you run into bugs like /Windows/ programs
> that can't handle a deep path even if the underlying (Windows) OS can?
> Well, that's not an arch bug...
>
> -t

Actually, that is exactly what cygwin can do. It even runs a rootless X 
server. I use it to run gnu-cash from another machine. It's not quite a 
perfectly virtual instance, but it is close. :)

Remember, there are a couple of us that *are* using tla on windows already.

I've written some code to make the support a little bit better, 
preventing some of the redundancy in paths. You can still hit the limit, 
but it takes a lot longer. I think I have all the bugs worked out, but 
I'm waiting for Johannes to look at it a little bit before I do a full 
announcement.

John
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