Typo in README - Windows Installation

Yes, documentation in the README is a good idea. kulov is writing an installer that installs drush and all of its dependencies; Propeople will distribute it, and we can link to it on the project page (and in the README) when it is available, which should be fairly soon. There is a good chance that Microsoft will ultimately roll Drush into the Microsoft Web Platform Installer once it is all working.

@moshe, msi installer is on its way with all the features you are thinking about.

Thanks, will help a lot. I just followed the docs & am having issues, you might suggest getting drush.5.dev somewhere, it seems more Windows-friendly. Note the existing documentation says you need ncurses, which is no longer available in the referred to library, but PdCurses is. I skipped this step, please advise if I have fix it. Please remember to update the online documentation too.

Thanks for the pointer to pdcurses; this could help at #1078514: Determining the number of columns on Windows.

Windows support is being actively worked on right now, so check back frequently for improvements.

@greg, should we add PDCurses to the installer?

Yes, I was going to send you an email and suggest that. I have not tried it yet, but if it includes tput or stty or anything similar, it would be useful.

Any updates on the installer? :-) (subscribe)

kulov should be back from vacation shortly, but I'll give an update as of a week or so ago.

The installer is not GPL, so it will not be on drupal.org. The final decision about where the installer will be posted has not been made, but it will probably be on the Microsoft Interop site. We should be ready to start putting up betas of the installer for testing shortly.

Once we have a beta installer posted online, we can update the drush README with instructions on where to get it and how to run it (and probably will add a link to the drush project page as well). I'm thinking that will happen pretty soon, probably this month. Of course, the installer will not be declared final until there is a drush-5 stable for it to install. Still shooting for DrupalCon London for that.

Edit: MS is not placing any preconditions on the distribution of the installer; distribution is up to ProPeople, which is doing this development.

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Added a reference to the drush windows installer page in the readme.

Nice! :-)
However, there's a small typo in the installer link: http://drush.ws/drush_winodws_installer

Cleaned up README in Drush 5 and Drush 4 branches.