From: "Jostein Chr. Andersen" <jostein@josander.net>
> To: Garrett Rooney <rooneg@electricjellyfish.net>, dev@subversion.tigris.org
>
> On Wednesday 14 January 2004 02.55, Garrett Rooney wrote:
> > > +
> > > + <para>Not to fear, Microsoft Windows users can download a
> > > + pre-compiled Windows native Subversion command-line client
> > > that + works in the Command Prompt application. Many examples
> > > of the + client will work in the Command Prompt, but you may
> > > have more + success if you run the examples inside the Cygwin
> > > Unix emulation + environment.</para>
> >
> > Given the number of issues people have brought up on the mailing lists
> > in the past that have been the result of strange interaction between
> > cygwin and regular win32 apps like svn, should we really be
> > recommending people use cygwin?
>
> Given that Cygwin are used by a very small (but enthusiastic) group of
> people and that Subversion are supposed to run natively under a OS: -I
> would say no, we should not support it.
> If someone can help when someone are in trouble or send patches in order
> to fix it, then fine. But I think a lot of things should have priority
> over this issue.
>
> As a Linux user, I appreciate the power of the Bash shell, but Cygwin is
> not a Windows environment. And after Subversion 1.0 (or 1.1) the number
> of native windows users (the Windows console) will get even bigger
> related to the Cygwin shell. TortoiseSVN will probably be king anyway.
>
> I have no problem at all to understand why someone prefear to use the
> Cygwin shell over the Windows console, but have someone tested Msys
> instead of Cygwin when using Subversion on Windows?
My point in putting that section in the text was to provide Windows
users a way to run the command line examples. Some of them use
file descriptor redirection and pipes. Instead of going through the
whole book to see what examples would and would not work with Command
Prompt and test them under different versions of Windows, I thought it
would be easier to put a general statement in there so as to not turn
off Windows users and give them something to work with.
We obviously can point Windows users to TortoiseSVN, which is a
great interface, but the examples in the book don't use TortoiseSVN
at all. So we need something for the Windows users to test and
follow the examples.
Just to be clear, I'm not advocating running a Cygwin compiled svn,
just the native one under Cygwin.
Best,
Blair
--
Blair Zajac <blair@orcaware.com>
Plots of your system's performance - http://www.orcaware.com/orca/
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Received on Wed Jan 14 18:29:20 2004