support for windows hosts

[spescina]

on vagrant up I have this error:
"fork() function is unimplemented on this machine"

[fgrehm]

@spescina I'd love to fix that and support windows, but I'm not sure what we can use for the notifications over there.

Do you have any recommendations? I've used Snarl in the past but dont know if there's a better alternative these days

[spescina]

I'm using Snarl too. There's also Growl for windows. I would like to use your plugin with grunt so I'll use this grunt plugin https://github.com/dylang/grunt-notify. Maybe this can help you...

[fgrehm]

Thanks for the pointer :) I'll try to have a look at it

[edwinheij]

+1
Windows 8 / 8.1 has a notification window build in. Info @ http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows-8/how-manage-notifications
Gulp-notify is working out of the box on my console directly. Hope to welcome it via Vagrant. Would be awesome.

[Stanzilla]

Yup would be great to get support for the native Windows8+ notifications!

[fgrehm]

Sorry for the silence here but unfortunately I don't have a windows machine around to try this out neither I have been using this plugin recently.

If anyone is able to put together a PR I'd love to review it and bring it in, but keep in mind that my plan is to eventually start making use of https://github.com/fgrehm/notify-send-http from within this plugin, so if a PR is made to that project it would be perfect!

[insign]

+1

[alpha01]

The new notification server that is part of vagrant-notify 0.5.0 works on Windows 7. I haven't tested Windows 8/8.1 or Windows 10, so I'm not familiar with their respective native notifications. If they include a userland application that you can easily call, then it's just a matter of creating a notify-send.exe binary, available on path. See example https://github.com/fgrehm/vagrant-notify/tree/master/examples#windows