Re: bzr on Windows

On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 08:10 +0200, Guido Serassio wrote:
> Hi Robert,

> >
> >There is and it works fine for many windows users. However some using
> >problematic toolchains like Visual Studio have more needs than just
> >checking out the code - they need file mangling. And that is very close
> >to landing now - code is all working its just being tweaked during
> >review.
>
> Robert, is not only a VisualStudio problem: currently if I add a file
> from Windows, the wrong line ending will broke all other platforms.
>
> So (IMHO), bzr doesn't work on Windows and Canonical must stop to say
> that bzr is running on Windows, it's only a marketing's lie.

I really don't think its a lie - it works on windows, *just fine* for
many users.

It doesn't work for all users, thats true. It doesn't work for all users
on unix either.

-Rob

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