best way to use bazaar on windows

[Rahul Nabar]

On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 6:06 PM, Dave Compton <to.dave.c at gmail.com> wrote:
> The environment I use is probably not the *best* way but it works
> reasonably well and may be of interest to you (particularly since you work
> in linux).

Thanks for your very helpful comments Dave! It may not be the best,
sure, but it still helps me to have inputs from other users about what
works well and what does not. Maybe, I'll end up with some hybrid
solution based on what options different users recommend! I am being a
bit cautious with deplyoying Bazaar in WinXP, since, in my experience,
if things "break" within Windows its a real pain to figure out why and
to fix them! I guess it goes with the lack of transparency that
pervades all things "windows"! :)

>  I use bazaar from the command line and the command line is a cygwin bash
> shell.  I almost never use the windows xp "cmd shell".

That does sound like a good option. I think I already have cygwin on
this machine. The only drawback I remember concerned paths: Windows
paths tend to have spaces in them and handling that seemed like a pain
the last time I tried something similar.  But possibly because that
was a "win cmd shell"! Have you faced this at all? Otherwise on Linux
I'm a total "command line person" hardly ever touching the GUI!

On Windows though I'll be working in the GUI (Word and ppt!); so a
win-explorer or similar solution might be easiest. (If its easy-to-use
I'll end up versioning with more discipline!)

I'll wait a bit to see if other Win users have stories to tell!

-Rahul