windows support

[Brett Calcott]

James Blackwell wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 11:36:50AM +1100, Brett Calcott wrote:
> 
> Are you using cygwin or raw windows? Both are supported in mainline,
> though the windows version is a bit more difficult to install.
> 

I'm using the raw windows version. It seems to install fine. But I've 
got a branch with win32 support.

> 
> Merry Christmas. ;)

Cheers!
> 
> 
>>2. Is there a faster way to get a branch that using http. Branching 
>>takes an awful long time (> 1hr). I'm in Australia, if that makes a 
>>difference.
> 
> 
> The two most common ways _today_ are packing up a tarball of the branch
> from time to time (download the tarball and unpack to bootstrap) or using
> rsync.
> 
> That said, there's been some hard core work on both the current (weave)
> and potentially next (append only known as "knit") format. The recent
> weave work is a variety of work that chops off 50% here and 25% there. The
> recent tests for knit showed a whopping 98% reduction in time for bzr
> branch -- as in from 80 minutes down to less than 2. Its not quite ready
> for inclusion in official bzr.dev yet -- it still has some bugs, hasn't
> been reviewed yet and may or may not have tests.
> 

That sounds very cool. Especially for windows users. I shall keep my eye 
out for it.

Cheers,
Brett