RE: [binarycloud-dev] Using CVS for r2

[Andreas A. <a.a...@th...>]

Hi Peter,


> >try cygwin, it is a quite good UNIX env running in Win32 box...
> I'm scared of installing cygwin in case it mucks up my computer.  Has
> anyone on the list had any problems??
With cygwin? Not really, the system itself works quite fine here (NT). But
it does not work properly with WinCVS. Winvcs launches cmd.exe for executing
the ssh command. And so you need the ssh.exe file for win. The one for
cygwin won't work 'caus it requires posix style paths, homedire etc, that
are only available with cygwin/bash.

So you have to have the ssh.exe cvs.exe etc for win seperately. I dont like
that.

If you can find a way entirely replacing cmd.exe with the cygwin
bashloginshellstuff it might work.

I'm not sure how to safely replace cmd.exe with the bash stuff. A few years
ago it was possible to replace this with a shell called 4NT, 4OS2 4DOS etc.
So replacing it with cygwin should be possible.


Andi