[mosh-devel] cygwin now added

[Reini Urban]

On 06/25/2012 01:03 PM, Keith Winstein wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> We're still looking for somebody to step up and by the Windows czar
> for Mosh -- which would include testing release candidates and
> packaging Mosh in whatever format is most convenient for Windows (or
> Cygwin) users.
>
> We had a long and pretty well-publicized release candidate series for
> Mosh 1.2. A few Cygwin people tested it and said it worked for them.
> Then we released it. The fact that people are now complaining tells me
> that we do not have a lot of testers on Cygwin. :-)
>
> If you're willing to be that person, that would be wonderful. Mosh 1.3
> will have Peter's C++ startup code, which apparently fixes some of the
> problems. But we can't call Cygwin a supported platform until we have
> somebody who's willing to package it in a convenient format and test
> the release candidates.

mosh is now officially included in the cygwin distro. (i.e Windows)
The official support channel is cygwin at cygwin.com

The installer is described at http://cygwin.com/install.html

@keith:
In short for the webpage:
  Cygwin
  http://cygwin.com/install.html, select mosh
Icon: http://ostatic.com/files/images/icon_cygwin_image_4.png

> On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 12:59 PM, Reini Urban<reini at cpanel.net>  wrote:
>> On 06/23/2012 05:43 PM, Christoph von Stuckrad wrote:
>>> On 24.06.2012 00:30, Dan Girard wrote:
>>>> Seen here<https://gist.github.com/2349067>.
>>>>
>>>> And it works.....
>>>
>>> Works well!  (I 'telework' with it from home, sometimes with
>>> and sometimes without vpn-tunnel, and the connections survives
>>> this change and the daily DSL-redials too)
>>>
>>> I even updated to the new 1.2.2 BUT I had to use the script
>>> (the 'mosh' perl-script) from the older version, because
>>> the new version's 'close(...pty...)' somehow disconnects
>>> the Terminal and so does not work any more.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> I was tempted to maintain the official cygwin package as I fixed it with
>> the centos fixes, but I had no time to do so recently.
>> --
>> Reini

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Reini