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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Arch On Cygwin(Win32)
From: |
Karel Gardas |
Subject: |
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Arch On Cygwin(Win32) |
Date: |
Thu, 13 Nov 2003 10:26:47 +0100 (CET) |
Hi,
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 address@hidden wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> as I'm interested in {arch} but need support on win32 (cygwin will do) to
> adopt it , I came up with the following thoughts:
>
> The only accesses to the file system that require realy long paths are
> internal to {arch}, and not strictly user-visible, ie. in the project
> structure.
>
> tla could create a file ~/.arch that actually contains
> long-filename-capable filesystem (eg. ext2) and route all accesses to
> /my/local/dev/path/{arch} to ~/.arch(/my/local/dev/path/{arch})
Are you able to mount ext2 filesystem under windows?
> To make this work, the vu_* commands should detect the {arch}
> subdirectory, and perform the equivalent of chroot.
> (Also, the repositories themselves would have to go inside this fs)
>
> Calling tar and gzip should be replaced by vu_tar and vu_gzip
> that go through the vu_* interface.
This means that you will need to write your own tar/gzip utils if I
understand it correctly.
> Any thoughts on feasibility of this?
IMHO this is more work then either:
- fix Cygwin to support longer paths
or even
- do clean Arch Win32 port w/o a need for Cygwin. Here required GNU tools
might be provided/compiled by MinGW.
Cheers,
Karel
--
Karel Gardas address@hidden
ObjectSecurity Ltd. http://www.objectsecurity.com
RE: [Gnu-arch-users] Arch On Cygwin(Win32), Parker, Ron, 2003/11/13
RE: [Gnu-arch-users] Arch On Cygwin(Win32), Parker, Ron, 2003/11/13
RE: [Gnu-arch-users] Arch On Cygwin(Win32), Parker, Ron, 2003/11/13