[mosh-devel] Please test Mosh 1.2.4 release candidate

[Christoph von Stuckrad]

On 11.03.2013 03:35, Keith Winstein wrote:
...
> Testers on the BSDs, Cygwin, and Solaris/AIX are especially helpful.

OK, so here is my (very short, WORKING)
test on 'current' Cygwin (on WinXP):

The Server-Side(s) are debian-squeeze and debian-wheezy versions.

Complation went straight through (after remembering to set
the same ENV-Vars as for the previous Version; i.e,:
#---------------------------------------------------------
export
PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/cygdrive/cygwin/bin:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32
export CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/include/ncurses"
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/
export SHELL=/bin/bash
./configure
make
make install
#---------------------------------------------------------

> Most notable for packagers, the upcoming release will eliminate a
> dependency on the IO::Pty Perl module (thanks to Anton Lundin), so we
> expect that Cygwin can go back to the Perl wrapper.

Works as expected - installer puts the wrapper into /usr/local/bin/mosh
and it simply runs ...

>                 * Support port ranges with -p LOWPORT:HIGHPORT (Luke Mewburn)
not tested - did not want to mess with the firewalls between home(DSL)
and workplace ...

>                 * Ctrl-^ Ctrl-Z suspends mosh client (Nikolai Zeldovich)
works in Cygwin too (but may be dangerous, because 'kills' work
different from normal UNIX under Cygwin and might collaterally
kill mosh(s) running on the same window.

>                 * mm:ss display of lost-contact times (Kevin Ballard)
>                 * Show infobar with control chars when Ctrl-^ is typed
both work of course

>                 * Put terminal in altscreen mode (Anders Kaseorg)

THIS did NOT work on 'Cygwin MinTTY' with mosh (while the same program
/usr/games/worms on a ssh-connection did switch screen back!)
Do you need more Infos? Shall I test something explicitely?

Yours   Stucki

PS.: Something for a wishlist - may be fairly easy? Is there ANY Method
to change the color of the 'infobar'?  On a white-on-blue editor screen
(or 'mc') it's hard to notice the switch from text to 'waiting'.
Setting simple ANSI colors or at least an alternative with a fixed
option for e.g. yellow on red ???