[Swift-devel] swift-on-windows

[Mihael Hategan]

On Fri, 2007-05-04 at 21:29 -0500, Ioan Raicu wrote:
> What about cygwin? Linux scripts work unchanged in cygwin... for
> example, I can run my GT4 clients from windows under cygwin with no
> modifications to any of my scripts or code (non-swift related).

Right. That should work.

There's one other thing. I'm now a little more convinced that perl may
be a better option for a wrapper. It's a little more strict than Bash,
and Jens seems to think it's not as wasteful of resources (although that
should not be that much of an issue if it's running on a worker node).

Mihael

> Ioan
> 
> Mihael Hategan wrote: 
> > Again, if the jobs themselves are NOT run locally, then the wrapper
> > problem does not apply.
> > 
> > On Fri, 2007-05-04 at 21:14 -0500, Yong Zhao wrote:
> >   
> > > Yeah, I did run swift on my windows laptop a while ago before we
> > > introduced the shell wrapper. We can have a windows wrapper in place of
> > > that to run on windows.
> > > 
> > > Yong.
> > > 
> > > On Fri, 4 May 2007, Mihael Hategan wrote:
> > > 
> > >     
> > > > I think our own Yong has.
> > > > The trick, if you run locally, is the wrapper which is a bash script. If
> > > > not, I can see no obvious problems.
> > > > 
> > > > On Fri, 2007-05-04 at 16:46 +0000, Ben Clifford wrote:
> > > >       
> > > > > out of interest, has anyone ever run swift on a Windows OS?
> > > > > 
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