Support Windows

[tamtakoe]

Deploy doesn't work in Windows. Problem with paths to create an archive (extra slash at the beginning of the path. Problem in path2 module). It doesn't work in PowerShell (it doesn't support && command separator, only ;). Problem with SCP command.

[grushikhin]

+1

[Jokero]

+1
Many frontend developers use Windows. So it's normal to deploy feature branches to staging environment from Windows

[vozovoz-nikita]

+1
u have to support this feature

[gregberge]

I have not any machine on Windows on my side, so if someone want to add the Windows support it's welcome.

[vladkosinov]

@tamtakoe you can try to use it under cygwin

[AntJanus]

hey guys,
I'm using Shipit and Shipit-deploy on a windows machine on a daily basis for about 6 months now.

What are the issues that everyone's seeing? I submitted a few PRs and fixed any Windows related bugs I've seen.

[tamtakoe]

@AntJanus for example, the problems that are described in the topic :-)

[AntJanus]

@tamtakoe right, I'm not having that issue. Can you post your shipit-deploy version and your error stack? I was fixing the pathing issue in this PR but that was for creating paths on the server.

[jeandat]

@AntJanus: How do you use it on windows ? Shell commands are hardcoded in the code like "rm -rf ...". Maybe you are using cygwin or equivalent.

@neoziro: I think that's a conception issue. Not having windows is not blocking. Node being portable, that kind of operation should be done in pure node and not with shell commands. At least, you should write it in the readme to avoid people wasting time testing something that will never work.

[AntJanus]

@jdat82 ahhh, could be! I'm using CMDer which has a bunch of GNU tools loaded with it. I could help make it more portable by replacing rm -rf with stuff like rimraf which works cross system.

@neoziro I can definitely try to make shipit-deploy more friendly to Windows; however, it'd definitely involve switching a few things out and using more external packages. If that's cool with you, I'll start submitting PRs as I come across stuff. If not, I wouldn't mind forking shipit-deploy and creating something like shipit-deploy-windows.

[gregberge]

I close it, if you can run it on windows @AntJanus it's OK, and I agree, feel free to create a module specially designed for Windows.