Comment 5 for bug 258349

Hi John,

it seems I somehow misinterpreted the following from
http://bazaar-vcs.org/WindowsDownloads :

"This page covers downloads for Microsoft Windows, packaged into
installer executables. These are the best choice for Bazaar users on
Windows, but you can also get original source-only packages, and
packages for Unix, Mac OS and Cygwin.

This is the easiest way to install Bazaar even if you don't already have
Python. ..."

The last word Cygwin and the first sentence starting with "This is the
easiest way..."

So I guess I give the Windows version a chance later on.

Regards, Ingo

John A Meinel wrote:
> I'm quite surprised that the cygwin would be the "recommended" version.
> Often I've considered even removing it from the list of supported
> versions. It works fine (and is supported), but it generally is quite a
> bit slower than the native version. And as you notice, it does not have
> Unicode support. This is mostly just because of the overhead that cygwin
> introduces.
>
> Anyway, as long as you feel things are working well, there certainly
> isn't a need to change. Just a recommendation. The only thing I'm aware
> of that the cygwin version provides, is if you need to use cygwin paths
> like /cygdrive/c/foo, or you need to manage the executable bit on
> windows. Though there is a plugin (x-bit) that you could use for that.