Re: [binarycloud-dev] Using CVS for r2

[Alex B. <en...@tu...>]

>>> 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.

but what about _not_ using wincvs at all with cygwin, just using
command-line cvs co -P pserver:... blah

I haven't dried that (um, maybe I should) but it should work..

but yeah, I'm definitely voting for "or should I just get a linux box?" :)

_alex