From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Rob McDonald" Subject: Re: Possibility of a MinGW version? Date: Sun, 25 Dec 2005 12:16:29 -0500 Message-ID: <003101c60976$f2912ff0$6900a8c0@sps> References: <006c01c60832$86f92620$6900a8c0@sps> <43AD1E63.4040103@op5.se> <009701c60891$50893fd0$6900a8c0@sps> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Andreas Ericsson" , X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Dec 25 18:13:34 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 1EqZR5-0001Q1-JA for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sun, 25 Dec 2005 18:13:31 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750853AbVLYRNL (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Dec 2005 12:13:11 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750873AbVLYRNK (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Dec 2005 12:13:10 -0500 Received: from sccrmhc14.comcast.net ([63.240.77.84]:15055 "EHLO sccrmhc14.comcast.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750853AbVLYRNJ (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Dec 2005 12:13:09 -0500 Received: from sps (c-24-98-112-64.hsd1.ga.comcast.net[24.98.112.64]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc14) with SMTP id <200512251713080140032j25e>; Sun, 25 Dec 2005 17:13:09 +0000 To: "Johannes Schindelin" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1506 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1506 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: > Well, cygwin is everything but unmaintained. It's unfair to blaim the good > work of the cygwin folks if you can't get it to work. I have *never* had a > problem I could not solve with cygwin. In particular, *no* package got > messed up when I installed/upgraded another package. Before you ask: I use > cygwin extensively. I'm sorry to have seemed harsh in my criticism. I have not used Cygwin seriously in a couple years. At the time, as a user, I saw no noticable progress. The project seemed dead. I always had trouble with their package management program. I'm glad you've never had similar problems. > As I already stated, there are two *big* showstoppers when it comes to > port git to MinGW. Thanks very much for those comments, that is exactly the kind of information I was hoping to get out of this thread. > Okay, I'll bite. Could you please port python to MinGW? As I said, my experience porting apps to MinGW has been very limited in scope. Essentially limited to programs that don't use any unixisms. I see no need to port Python, they already have a native version. And, you could always use Jython if they didn't. > You're welcome. Just be sure to tackle the hard problems first, else you > end up having wasted lots of valuable time for nothing. Thanks for the insight. I didn't think the shell and / vs \ were going to be the real issues. Rob