[mosh-devel] Mosh and C++ wrapper version

[Reini Urban]

On 07/17/2012 03:24 PM, Keith Winstein wrote:
> Dmitry,
>
> We'd be glad to have you maintain a distribution of Mosh for Windows,
> via Cygwin or otherwise. Please just publish your package however is
> best for Cygwin users (can it be somehow integrated into Cygwin...?),
> and we will have other Windows users test it out. If all is good we will
> link to your package on http://mosh.mit.edu and point users there.

Note that I already have the needed cygwin packages ready to be 
announced. I was just busy with the big perl and parrot releases
in the last week.
The 3 mosh packages protobuf, mosh and perl-IO-Tty had to wait
for the perl 5.14 switch, which I did on sunday.

> I don't think there is any theoretical obstacle to integrating
> mosh-client with PuTTY (somebody else has just integrated mosh-client
> with Android Connectbot pretty successfully). But somebody who knows
> about Windows would need to do this work.
>
> Best regards,
> Keith
>
> On Wed, 18 Jul 2012, Dmitry Koterov wrote:
>
>> So what do you think?
>> (BTW I suppose there are no realistic possibilities to build a non-cygwin
>> version of mosh under Windows - it's too complex based on existed code
>> and
>> actibe pty usages. But it is mostly not needed - cygwin version would be
>> fine and portable enough.)
>>
>> On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 3:00 PM, Dmitry Koterov
>> <dmitry.koterov at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> Possibly I could be such maintainer - I have a couple of
>> projects which are distributed such way
>> (http://en.dklab.ru/lib/dklab_realsync/, http://denwer.ru). I am
>> planning at least to try this (of course if you agree).
>> Another thing I'd like to do is to make linux mosh-server binary to be
>> built statically (including glibc) - so it could be copied to any
>> version of linux with no care of dependencies. It will make mosh
>> distribution and creation of packages for various linuxes much easier
>> - I've seen it in my "Dklab_realplexor" project before.
>>
>>
>> On Saturday, June 23, 2012, Keith Winstein wrote:
>> Hi Dmitry,
>>
>> Yes, we plan to merge it by mosh 1.3 (the next major
>> release). Glad to
>> hear it solves the Cygwin problems -- but what we really
>> need in this
>> department is somebody who is willing to step up and be
>> the Cygwin (or
>> Windows) maintainer and distribute a package for those
>> platforms in
>> whatever format is most convenient for users. Thanks for
>> all your help
>> so far!
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Keith
>>
>> On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 6:12 AM, Dmitry Koterov
>> <dmitry.koterov at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hello.
>> >
>> > Thanks for mosh again.
>> >
>> > Keith, could you please say whether you plan to
>> merge piannucci's patch
>> > which replaces Perl wrapper script by a native one?
>> > https://github.com/keithw/mosh/pull/96
>> >
>> > This method completely solves problems in Cygwin and
>> e.g. allows to build a
>> > portable Windows distribution for mosh client (which
>> suppose to be very
>> > demanded).
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
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Reini