341269e035
* assistant, watcher: .gitignore files and other git ignores are now
honored, when git 1.8.4 or newer is installed.
(Thanks, Adam Spiers, for getting the necessary support into git for this.)
* importfeed: Ignores transient problems with feeds. Only exits nonzero
when a feed has repeatedly had a problems for at least 1 day.
* importfeed: Fix handling of dots in extensions.
* Windows: Added support for encrypted special remotes.
* Windows: Fixed permissions problem that prevented removing files
from directory special remote. Directory special remotes now fully usable.
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See [[todo/windows_support]]..
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## symlinks
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Apparently new versions of Windows have something very like symlinks.
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(Or really, 3 or so things not entirely unlike symlinks and all different.)
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Stackoverflow has some details.
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NTFS supports symbolic links two different ways: an [[!wikipedia NTFS symbolic link]] and an [[!wikipedia NTFS_junction_point]]. The former seems like the closest analogue to POSIX symlinks.
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The windows port will not use symlinks. It will only support direct mode.
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## POSIX
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Lots of ifdefs and pain to deal with POSIX calls in the code base.
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Or I could try to use Cygwin.
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## Deeper system integration
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[NTFS Reparse Points](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365503%28v=VS.85%29.aspx) allow a program to define how the OS will interpret a file or directory in arbitrary ways. This requires writing a file system filter.
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## Developement environment
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Someone wrote in to say:
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> For Windows Development you can easily qualify
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> for Bizspark - http://www.microsoft.com/bizspark/
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>
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> This will get you 100% free Windows OS licenses and
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> Dev tools, plus a free Azure account for cloud testing.
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> (You can also now deploy Linux VMs to Azure as well)
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> No money required at all.
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