Windows support

[thomasjthomasj]

Currently Cog/Mothership does not support Windows, and I believe this is even on a virtual machine. The reason is that Windows does not allow for colons in file/directory names.

When the assets are copied over to the public directory, they are put in directories that use colon separated namespaces (e.g. Message:Mothership:CMS). The same applies for view overrides (although the potential to mitigate this would come about once #401 is merged).

I feel that our options are to either no longer use the colon separated namespaces, which would probably bring about a rather sizeable BC break, or to implement some sort of fallback, such as hyphens, when generating on a windows server.

[ghost]

I can confirm it doens't work on a linux VM on a Windows host due to the colons in the filenames. I see lots of protocol errors both in the installer and when I try and run the migrations after a composer install.

I'd love to see some support for those of us with dev VMs on Windows hosts.

[thomasjthomasj]

Hi Ed

Thank you for confirming this. Unfortunately, active development on Mothership has temporarily been haulted because the parent company doesn't exist anymore. There is a branch in Cog for Windows support, though #447 that works by using exclamation marks instead of colons by default.

It may be a bit involved to get it working with this branch though

Thanks,

Thomas

[https://avatars0.githubusercontent.com/u/5089510?v=3&s=400]#447

Windows support by kuiche · Pull Request #447 · mothership-ec/coghttps://github.com//pull/447
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This allows support for windows by allowing all places where files are stored using ':' to use '!'. This is in the public cogules directory (see AssetDump) and the view directory of sites. Try all...

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Subject: Re: [mothership-ec/cog] Windows support (#416)

I can confirm it doens't work on a linux VM on a Windows host due to the colons in the filenames. I see lots of protocol errors both in the installer and when I try and run the migrations after a composer install.

I'd love to see some support for those of us with dev VMs on Windows hosts.

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