Re: Importing Mozilla CVS into git

[Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>]

Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-06-02 at 00:11 -0400, Shawn Pearce wrote:
> 
> > GIT today requires not only a decent UNIX shell but also, GNU tools,
> > Perl and Python.  Porting to Solaris has recently had some more
> > effort put into it to remove some of the GNU tool dependencies but
> > perhaps one of the most important features (git-merge-recursive)
> > is a Python script.
> 
> The great thing about git is that it's modular.  A single utility can be
> replaced and retested in the same environment, without having to rewrite
> the rest of the scripts.  A dedicated programmer with good C and Python
> skills could rewrite git-merge-recursive.py in C in 2 days, I believe.
> Add a few days of bug fixing, of course.

Heh.  Funny you should mention that.  I was just thinking a few
minutes ago about working on that exact change...
 
> Dependency on Cygwin, Perl and Python is too much.  Windows is becoming
> a legacy system in some circles, and it may run on legacy hardware.  Yet
> it's irreplaceable as a testing platform for many projects.

Its already legacy to me.  Heck its 2006 and my work desktop still
says something about 2000 when I login.  :-)
 
-- 
Shawn.