Public Impressions

[John Arbash Meinel]

Lalo Martins wrote:
> On Fri, 05 May 2006 08:36:48 -0500, John Arbash Meinel wrote:
>> 4) Windows support. I know we support windows, but none of the main
>> developers stays logged in to a Windows machine, and runs it every day.
> 
> fwiw, I use bzr on windows everyday.  I works well enough.  There is some
> problem with the sftp transport (no matter what I give it, bzr says it's
> "not a branch").  Other than that, dvc doesn't do the right quoting if you
> have spaces in your path (which most windows users tend to have).  But at
> the core, bzr does what I need.
> 
> (I'm trying to switch most of my development to a coLinux instance,
> though, partially because things like Django are just too painful with
> Windows' poor excuse for a shell.)
> 
> best,
>                                                Lalo Martins

Under what circumstance is sftp not working? Are you saying it doesn't
work when getting from another machine, or is sftp access to the local
machine failing?
What sftp server are you using? I would be interested in figuring out
what isn't working for you and how to get it working again.

As for Window's crappy shell, you might try rxvt that comes with cygwin.
On my Windows machine I use the cygwin shell, but I have an alias such
that "bzr => bzr.bat". I use the native Win32 bzr client, because the
cygwin one is noticeably slower (something like 50% slower for 'bzr
status') I found a bug in how bzr handles the executable bit, but it
generally gets things right.

John
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