From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Ericsson Subject: Re: Possibility of a MinGW version? Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2005 11:24:23 +0100 Message-ID: <43AD21D7.5060306@op5.se> References: <006c01c60832$86f92620$6900a8c0@sps> <43AD1E63.4040103@op5.se> <20051224101849.GY1279MdfPADPa@greensroom.kotnet.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Rob McDonald , git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Dec 24 11:24:43 2005 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Eq6Zt-0006Zs-Qv for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sat, 24 Dec 2005 11:24:42 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1422653AbVLXKYh (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 Dec 2005 05:24:37 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932511AbVLXKYh (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 Dec 2005 05:24:37 -0500 Received: from pne-smtpout1-sn2.hy.skanova.net ([81.228.8.83]:58098 "EHLO pne-smtpout1-sn2.hy.skanova.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932503AbVLXKYg (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 Dec 2005 05:24:36 -0500 Received: from [192.168.1.42] (217.210.107.34) by pne-smtpout1-sn2.hy.skanova.net (7.2.069.1) id 43AA783200099211; Sat, 24 Dec 2005 11:24:24 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7-1.1.fc4 (X11/20050929) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en To: skimo@liacs.nl In-Reply-To: <20051224101849.GY1279MdfPADPa@greensroom.kotnet.org> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Sven Verdoolaege wrote: > On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 11:09:39AM +0100, Andreas Ericsson wrote: > >>The worst trouble you're likely to run into is all the hardcoded paths. >>They are everywhere and ofcourse use the / for path entity separation. > > > AFAIR, '/' is a valid path separator on Windows. > It's just command.com (does that still exist?) that insisted on '\\' > separators. > Are you sure? I've seen lots of porting patches that transliterate those to '\\'. Perhaps those who wrote those patches just took for granted that it was needed, the same as I did. > >>The fact that there are 39 bash'ish shell-scripts does little to help a >>native port, and although they can be fairly easily replaced by "real" >>programs it still means quite a bit of work with little real value for >>the unix-version, so I'm guessing you'll have to write those up for >>yourself. > > > Or just use MinGW's bash. > Didn't know it had one. Live and learn, I suppose. Good to know though. -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.ericsson@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231