John -- I specifically started with your version. I got the most recent 1.3 bz2 you have. Things go well until you try to commit back to linux. The sequence I've done is:
1. Create a project on linux with two files, a and b, one word in each 2. Get it on cygwin with your tla -- I call it tlam (and Lode's dirnames is tlad, dos8.3 is tlaw, Johannes' is tlaj, and the regular running but broken is tlau, for "unix"). Fine. 3. Tag a local branch, change the word in a. 4. star-merge is with a WC out of remote linux's archive. 5. Commit changes over there. 6. Get changes -- cannot find file, panic. In patch-log, the endings are corrupted and have spurious endings like base-0og, patch-log?, etc, which shouldn't be there. Bu "naturally" I mean paths length -- NTFS support long paths, and MSFU uses them, and no .exe at that, and it's, um, natural as opposed to what cygwin needs. UWIN is supported in openssl package, and I guess it's worth trying as well. Now I hacked an MSFU unix over Windows to run our Lord Tla :-), all of the MSFU bowing to it, it being the sole purpose of MSFU's miserable existence -- although I can get X clients from MSFU to run under Cygwin's X, so I could run more stuff there, and I compiled bash myself -- that ksh and csh nighmare was like a vietcong flashback! Still I want to stay on cygwin and just run tla in MSFU. The problem is, I couldn't use Emacs with it, unless I run MSFU Emacs, which is there, but I don't run Cygwin Emacs there either as too slow, I run ntemacs (runemacs). Dunno how to hook into MSFU tla. Maybe via psxrun.exe, but it's just another windowish labyrinthine setup. Oh well, windows-unix people are masochists, I guess... I decided to consciously resist the urge to install UWIN and spend two days just to see tla run there and forget about it and return to (gasp) bitkeeper and playing with darcs. :-) Cheers, Alexy _______________________________________________ Gnu-arch-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-arch-users GNU arch home page: http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gnu-arch/
