Support for Windows

[AustinWise]

Support for the Windows platform would be nice. As a member of the open source community (not acting officially with any company), here are some things I noticed that stand in the way of full Windows support.

Cloning the repo on Windows

Currently the Git repo cannot be cloned on Windows.

This file has a backslash in its name:

pkl-core/src/test/files/LanguageSnippetTests/input-helper/globtest/\moduleC.pkl

Since Windows uses the backslash a path separator, it is unable to create this file. Cloning fails with this error message:

error: invalid path 'pkl-core/src/test/files/LanguageSnippetTests/input-helper/globtest/\moduleC.pkl' fatal: unable to checkout working tree

I tried working around this by doing a sparse checkout and have not had success. Git appears to validate path names before applying the sparse checkout filter.

Additionally, there are two directories with colons in the name. By default Git on Windows does not like these paths, but that could be worked around by setting git config core.protectNTFS false.

• pkl-doc/src/test/files/DocGeneratorTest/output/data/localhost:12110
• pkl-doc/src/test/files/DocGeneratorTest/output/localhost:12110

Building on Windows

Not yet attempted.

CI support for Windows

Net yet attempted

Release builds on Windows

Net yet attempted