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52 lines
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The git-annex Windows port is not ready for prime time. But it does exist
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now! --[[Joey]]
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## status
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* Does not work with Cygwin's build of git (that git does not consistently
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support use of DOS style paths, which git-annex uses on Windows).
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Must use Msysgit.
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* rsync special remotes with a rsyncurl of a local directory are known
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buggy. (git-annex tells rsync C:foo and it thinks it means a remote host
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named C...)
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* Ssh connection caching does not work on Windows, so `git annex get`
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has to connect twice to the remote system over ssh per file, which
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is much slower than on systems supporting connection caching.
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* `git annex assistant` has not been tested, is probably quite incomplete
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and/or buggy.
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* Doesn't daemonize. Maybe use
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<http://hackage.haskell.org/package/Win32-services>
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or perhaps easier,
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<http://hackage.haskell.org/package/Win32-services-wrapper>
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* XMPP library not yet built.
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This should work to install the deps, using libs from cygwin
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cabal install libxml-sax --extra-lib-dirs=C:\\cygwin\\lib --extra-include-dirs=C:\\cygwin\\usr\\include\\libxml2
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cabal install gnuidn --extra-lib-dirs=C:\\cygwin\\lib --extra-include-dirs=C:\\cygwin\\usr\\include\\
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cabal install gnutls --extra-lib-dirs=C:\\cygwin\\lib --extra-include-dirs=C:\\cygwin\\usr\\include\\
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While the 1st line works, the rest fail oddly. Looks like lack of
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quoting when cabal runs c2hs and gcc, as "Haskell Platform" is
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taken as 2 filenames. Needs investigation why this happens here
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and not other times..
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Also needs gsasl, which is not in cygwin.
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See <http://josefsson.org/gsasl4win/README.html>
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* Switching between local repos in webapp hangs.
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* After adding a local repo and trying to switch to it, and rebooting,
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starting git-annex from the menu failed with `file://C:\Documents does
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not exist`. The local repo was `C:\Documents and Settings\...\...`
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* View debug log is empty in windows -- all log must goes to console.
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* Adding removable drive repo failed setting core.fsyncobjectfiles
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Error: `could not lock config file /annex/.git/config: No such file or
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directory` -- seems to be a drive path problem?
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* Local pairing seems to fail, after acking on Linux box, it stalls.
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* box.com and S3 repo setup fails: `setEnvCredPair TODO`
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* rsync.net setup failed. Seems to have generated a hostname including
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the directory somehow.
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* gcrypt is not ported to windows (and as a shell script, may need
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to be rewritten)
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* glacier-cli is not easily available (probably)
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* When clicking on the Files at the top of the webapp, a file
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browser *is* opened, but it has a Z-order underneath the web browser.
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