RE: [Monotone-devel] is monotone 0.13 supposed to work on windows xpsp1/ntfs

[Eric Meyer]

Nick,

I am successfully using monotone on both windows and linux. I have not seen
the specific error you mention. I have had problems when the path to the
monotone database includes spaces in directory names - in that case I have
to always specify the --db command line option.

It is helpful to create a .monotonerc file and put it in your home directory
with at least an implementation of :

function get_author(branchname)
  return "address@hidden"
end

(fill in a public key name from your db).


-----Original Message-----
From: address@hidden
[mailto:address@hidden On Behalf
Of Nick Evgeniev
Sent: Sunday, May 30, 2004 6:12 AM
To: address@hidden
Subject: [Monotone-devel] is monotone 0.13 supposed to work on windows
xpsp1/ntfs

Hi,

I just want to know the status of windows port of monotone? Is it proof of
concept?
I mean that I've downloaded and run mingw port of monotone and failed to
perform simple operation (commit changes) with message saying that monotone
has failed to rename temporary file to manifest (as manifest is being locked
or open) -- access denied.

So does anyone has tried to run monotone under windows?

IMHO both monotone & gnuarch are going to fail in arena of distributed
version control systems while the development teams are ignoring IMPORTANCE
of windows client. Because neither I nor other pragmatic developer will use
different source code systems for unix and non/unix development. So
surprisingly svk may win :)

ps: please do email reply (I'm not a subscriber)



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