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diff --git a/doc/design/assistant/blog/day_264__Windows_second_stage_complete.mdwn b/doc/design/assistant/blog/day_264__Windows_second_stage_complete.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..f34e8b15e --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/design/assistant/blog/day_264__Windows_second_stage_complete.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +The Windows port can now do everything in the [[walkthrough]]. It can use +both local and remote git repositories. Some special remotes work +(directory at least; probably rsync; likely any other special remote that +can have its dependencies built). Missing features include most special +remotes, gpg encryption, and of course, the assistant. + +Also built a NullSoft installer for git-annex today. This was made very +easy when I found the Haskell ncis library, which provides a DSL embedding +the language used to write NullSoft installers into Haskell. So I didn't +need to learn a new language, yay! And could pull in all my helpful +Haskell utility libraries in the program that builds the installer. + +The only tricky part was: How to get git-annex onto PATH? The standard way +to do this seems to be to use a multiple-hundred line include file. Of +course, that file does not have any declared license.. Instead of that, +I used a hack. The git installer for Windows adds itself to PATH, and is +a pre-requisite for git-annex. So the git-annex installer just installs +it into the same directory as git. + +So.. I'll be including this first stage Windows port, with installer in +the next release. Anyone want to run a Windows autobuilder? |