[Users] Clawsker on Windows (was Re: [Bug 4067] to be able to set the thread view default to off)

[Dave Howorth]

On Fri, 10 Aug 2018 14:14:27 +0200
Ricardo Mones <ricardo at mones.org> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Answering to the list, since it's not really related to the bug.
> 
> On Fri, 10 Aug 2018 11:36:36 +0000
> noreply at thewildbeast.co.uk wrote:
> 
> > > the page i found for clawsker online doesnt have a windows
> > > version.    
> > 
> > It's a perl program.  As far as I know it'll run on any system that
> > has perl installed.  
> 
> Yes, it will probably run, but it won't probably work as desired when
> exposed to a Windows file system, since it makes non-portable
> assumptions regarding filenames, for example.
> 
> As current it could probably work within a Cygwin environment, given
> the dependencies are also installed, but nobody has tested that AFAIK.

This piqued my interest to have a look. So firstly, thanks Ricardo for
such a useful program! And nicely written too :)

Jeremy's comment looked to me like he knew what he was talking about.
i.e. that he's actually run it on a Win 8.1 system and it works. I
don't have Windows so I can't check but perhaps people who do might
like to comment. Does it run, or does something break? And if so, what?

I'm not looking to make work for you, Ricardo. I'm happy to take a look
at any problems that arise.

For anybody else who like me hasn't realised, BTW, clawsker has
command-line options to set the path and file name of the clawsrc file.

Cheers, Dave