[mosh-users] cygwin now supported

[Reini Urban]

On 07/18/2012 04:53 PM, 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

See also http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2012-07/msg00017.html
-- 
Reini