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diff --git a/doc/todo/windows_support.mdwn b/doc/todo/windows_support.mdwn index c64e6fce5..5e0993b5a 100644 --- a/doc/todo/windows_support.mdwn +++ b/doc/todo/windows_support.mdwn @@ -1,61 +1,10 @@ -Can it be built on Windows? +The git-annex Windows port is not ready for prime time. But it does exist +now! --[[Joey]] -short answer: not yet +## status -First, you need to get some unix utilities for windows. Git of course. -Also rsync, and a `cp` command that understands at least `cp -p`, and -`uuid`, and `xargs` and `sha1sum`. Note that some of these could be -replaced with haskell libraries to some degree. - -There are probably still some places where it assumes / as a path -separator, although I fixed probably almost all by now. - -Then 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> - -A good starting point is -<http://hackage.haskell.org/package/unix-compat-0.3.0.1>. However, note -that its implementations of stuff like `createSymbolicLink` are stubs. ---[[Joey]] +* `git annex add` doesn't work +* test suite doesn't work +* Bad file locking, it's probably not safe to run more than one git-annex + process at the same time on Windows. +* No support for the assistant or webapp. |