Release windows binary

[gayanper]

I'm looking into build a tool for large code changes using this. Is there a possibility to build native windows binary ?

[rvantonder]

Unfortunately there aren't plans for a native windows binary any time soon. The major blocking issues are the following dependencies:

• core, which uses Unix to traverse files/directories. If comby can be built with core-kernel and remove this dependency, it would help things along. It's possible to break this dependency, but needs a restructure and quite a bit of work
• hack_parallel, which is the library to do Unix-style fork parallelism. It'd be possible to remove parallel processing from comby for windows, or use OCaml multicore with windows once that's possible.

What you can use "natively" in Windows instead is comby.js, which is a Javascript library for the basic comby match/rewrite abilities, and build on top of that. I haven't had time to turn that into a CLI tool yet. Here's a comment on the state of that, and how it could be used: #96 (comment)

[rvantonder]

Closing this in favor of the windows support issue #115, let me know if you have more thoughts in that issue. Thanks!