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Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 15:54:35 -0800
From: "Alexey N. Solofnenko" <A.Solofnenko@mdl.com>
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Subject: Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: darcs vs tla
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I tried native Windows and Cygwin TLA some time ago and they both failed 
with long path limitation. Also native Windows TLA crashed while trying 
to download a big repository from internet. **Maybe** these problems are 
already fixed, but there is no official Windows TLA build. Even more, it 
looks like Windows support is distributed between several third-party 
repositories and none of them seem finished.

Now, Windows does support long files names. It is even possible to call 
Win32 functions from Cygwin programs. I think, unless Windows patches 
are merged into main repository, Windows support will never be 
stabilized enough to be really usable. (Personally I think TLA relies 
too much on GNU command line tools that were not supported on Windows 
very well).

- Alexey.

John A Meinel wrote:

>I was arguing 3 things:
>
>1) tla will run under cygwin, so there is a windows version available.
>2) cmd.exe isn't a great shell, so depending on cygwin is okay. They
>    actually made it quite a bit better than command.com, but bash is
>    still far better.
>3) the general windows philosophy is to use gui's for things.
>
>The main 2 reasons tla doesn't run on windows is that it had a tendency 
>to abuse path names (make them too long) this is what I work on. The 
>second is that it is written as a POSIX application, and windows isn't 
>generally posix compliant. (They use file handles instead of small 
>integers, for instance.)
>...
>  
>
>John
>=:->
>
>
>  
>


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