On 2009-08-15, at 00:00, leppie wrote:
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3. While I am not a great fan of Microsoft, getting things running
on Windows is always a good thing; I even think native Windows
Ikarus would be a good thing :-). To this end, there's no reason
why one should use Unix-specific things when a more generic
approach is almost as good. For example, zip doesn't compress as
much as gzip or bzip2, but it's almost as good. Similarly,
symbolic links don't work on Windows, so we can live without them.
Windows does support symlinks out-of-the-box in Win2003 Server and
Vista onwards. See mklink.
Unfortunately, bzr on Windows ignores it, and given an invalid
Windows filename (as present in Derrick's SRFI libraries*), it
simply blows up.
Cheers
leppie
* I am forced to boot into a Linux VM to do a bzr update. Then I
need to compress it (tar.gz) and copy to Windows. Then it will only
decompress correctly if extracted within Cygwin.
Unfortunately, XP is still the most common version of Windows out
there, so that's what one has to use as the standard.
-- v
