git-annex/doc/todo/windows_support.mdwn
Joey Hess f4ddecd322 move windows support to a todo item
not holding my breath on this one..
2012-01-13 13:55:14 -04:00

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short answer: no
Long answer, quoting from a mail to someone else:
Well, I can tell you that it assumes a POSIX system, both in available
utilities and system calls, So you'd need to use cygwin or something
like that. (Perhaps you already are for git, I think git also assumes a
POSIX system.) So you need a Haskell that can target that. What this
page refers to as "GHC-Cygwin":
<http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/6.6/html/building/platforms.html>
I don't know where to get one. Did find this:
<http://copilotco.com/mail-archives/haskell-cafe.2007/msg00824.html>
(There are probably also still some places where it assumes / as a path
separator, although I fixed some. Probably almost all are fixed now.)
FWIW, git-annex works fine on OS X and other fine proprietary unixen. ;P
--[[Joey]]
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Alternatively, windows versions of these functions could be found,
which are all the ones that need POSIX, I think. A fair amount of this,
the stuff to do with signals and users, could be empty stubs in windows.
The file manipulation, particularly symlinks, would probably be the main
challenge.
<pre>
addSignal
blockSignals
changeWorkingDirectory
createLink
createSymbolicLink
emptySignalSet
executeFile
fileMode
fileSize
forkProcess
getAnyProcessStatus
getEffectiveUserID
getEnvDefault
getFileStatus
getProcessID
getProcessStatus
getSignalMask
getSymbolicLinkStatus
getUserEntryForID
getUserEntryForName
groupWriteMode
homeDirectory
installHandler
intersectFileModes
isRegularFile
isSymbolicLink
modificationTime
otherWriteMode
ownerWriteMode
readSymbolicLink
setEnv
setFileMode
setSignalMask
sigCHLD
sigINT
unionFileModes
</pre>