Windows issue

Alexander Belchenko bialix at ukr.net
Sat Apr 12 21:24:23 BST 2008


Dave Compton пишет:
> Alexander Belchenko wrote:
>> Russel Winder пишет:
>>> Generally I avoid all use of Windows, but from time to time I have to in
>>> order to test Gant to make sure it works on Windows.
>>>
>>> I have a Bazaar branch on which I can do "bzr info" and "bzr status" and
>>> I get the results I expect but "bzr update" leads to:
>>>
>>>     bzr: ERROR: [Errno 0] Error
>>>
>>> not the most informative message :-)  I am using Bazaar from Cygwin
>>> which is 1.0.0 on Python 2.5.1, the repository is in pack-0.92 format.
>>> Is this just a problem the answer to which is "we have to wait till
>>> Cygwin updates to a newer version"?
>>
>> Well, it will be nice if next time you'll using different subject 
>> line, e.g.:
>> "Cygwin issue".
>>
>> Without looking at .bzr.log I can't say for sure why you have this 
>> message,
>> but there is at least one known serious bug re bzr on Cygwin:
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bzr/+bug/181855
>>
>> Looks very similar to your problem.
>>
>>
>>
>>
> Although this is almost certainly a cygwin bug, from the user's 
> perspective it looks like a bzr failure. 

I understand that for non-Python users it looks like bzr failure.
But in fact this error occurs in PyCrypto library that used by Paramiko library,
and Bazaar used Paramiko library directly.
So actually bug occurs not in bzr itself, but at 2 layers lower.

You need to ping Cygwins maintainers to fix or workaround this.

> This probably discourages a 
> number of first time Bazaar users on windows - some to the point of 
> giving up entirely on Bazaar.

You guys have strange habits to call Cygwin by name windows.
I don't understand why.

> Is there be any way to do *something* more immediate to help a 
> cygwin/bzr user who sees this problem?  Maybe the cygwin bug can be 
> coded around.  If not, could the error message be changed to give some 
> direction regarding what the user can do to work around the problem?

I don't know. I'm not expert in Cygwin and prefer to not using it when I can.



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