[Monotone-devel] Re: is monotone 0.13 supposed to work on windows xp sp1/ntfs

[graydon hoare]

Nick Evgeniev wrote:

> I just want to know the status of windows port of monotone? Is it proof of
> concept?

no. it is a young port but it is definitely supposed to work.

> I mean that I've downloaded and run mingw port of monotone and failed to
> perform simple operation (commit changes) with message saying that monotone
> has failed to rename temporary file to manifest (as manifest is being locked
> or open) -- access denied.

it is possibly a bug. could you provide detailed steps to reproduce 
this, along with a debugging log (monotone --verbose) showing the 
failure condition?

> So does anyone has tried to run monotone under windows?

yes, I have done a number of tests, committed, updated, checked out, 
diffed, synchronized, etc. from windows. I develop the windows version 
on windows (XP). if it does not work there, it is a bug.

> IMHO both monotone & gnuarch are going to fail in arena of distributed
> version control systems while the development teams are ignoring IMPORTANCE
> of windows client.

I have no intention of ignoring windows. most developers work in mixed 
shops. I understand this. I did the original development of monotone on 
linux, but tried to make sure it would work on windows (i.e. no 
dependencies on tools or libraries which would not port to windows). the 
early port shows (to me) that monotone should be fine on windows. there 
may be some extra work to do, to make it "perfect" on windows, but I am 
quite willing to do it.

-graydon