[mosh-devel] cygwin now added

[Keith Winstein]

Fantastic! Thank you so much for taking the lead on this.

Could somebody else please test this package and give us your report? If 
all is well, we will put this on the main page.

Cheers,
Keith

On Wed, 18 Jul 2012, Reini Urban wrote:

> 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
>
> -- 
> Reini
>