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The Windows port can now do everything in the [[walkthough]]. It can use
both local and remote git repositories. Some special remotes work
(directory at least; probably rsync; likely any other special remote that
can have its dependencies built). Missing features include most special
remotes, gpg encryption, and of course, the assistant.
Also built a NullSoft installer for git-annex today. This was made very
easy when I found the Haskell ncis library, which provides a DSL embedding
the language used to write NullSoft installers into Haskell. So I didn't
need to learn a new language, yay! And could pull in all my helpful
Haskell utility libraries in the program that builds the installer.
The only tricky part was: How to get git-annex onto PATH? The standard way
to do this seems to be to use a multiple-hundred line include file. Of
course, that file does not have any declared license.. Instead of that,
I used a hack. The git installer for Windows adds itself to PATH, and is
a pre-requisite for git-annex. So the git-annex installer just installs
it into the same directory as git.
So.. I'll be including this first stage Windows port, with installer in
the next release. Anyone want to run a Windows autobuilder?