From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Keith Packard Subject: Re: Importing Mozilla CVS into git Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2006 20:55:18 -0700 Message-ID: <1149220518.5521.43.camel@neko.keithp.com> References: <9e4733910606011521n106f8f24s6c7053ce51e3791e@mail.gmail.com> <1149204044.27695.38.camel@neko.keithp.com> <9e4733910606011755n29a149f2m1409c5a23888f1c5@mail.gmail.com> <1149214075.5521.31.camel@neko.keithp.com> <9e4733910606011936i725e8eb2h8c2357f3688da43e@mail.gmail.com> <1149219593.5521.34.camel@neko.keithp.com> <9e4733910606012047h727a25f1vb367c880f8933c4e@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-9od4ZHctCoRzCG7d07rc" Cc: keithp@keithp.com, git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Jun 02 05:55:42 2006 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 1Fm0l8-0000bP-JD for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Fri, 02 Jun 2006 05:55:38 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751198AbWFBDzc (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Jun 2006 23:55:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751261AbWFBDzc (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Jun 2006 23:55:32 -0400 Received: from home.keithp.com ([63.227.221.253]:16658 "EHLO keithp.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751198AbWFBDzc (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Jun 2006 23:55:32 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by keithp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 597FA130023; Thu, 1 Jun 2006 20:55:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from keithp.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (keithp.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 25094-02; Thu, 1 Jun 2006 20:55:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: by keithp.com (Postfix, from userid 1033) id D8F0213001E; Thu, 1 Jun 2006 20:55:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from neko.keithp.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by keithp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF62214001; Thu, 1 Jun 2006 20:55:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: by neko.keithp.com (Postfix, from userid 1488) id A95C7542C0; Thu, 1 Jun 2006 20:55:18 -0700 (PDT) To: Jon Smirl In-Reply-To: <9e4733910606012047h727a25f1vb367c880f8933c4e@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.1 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: --=-9od4ZHctCoRzCG7d07rc Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 23:47 -0400, Jon Smirl wrote: > On 6/1/06, Keith Packard wrote: > > Git runs fine on Windows these days; asking people to use reasonable > > tools to contribute to the project doesn't seem crazy to me. >=20 > WIndows, Mac, Solaris and Linux will cover most Firefox developers. > Is git to go on those platforms? Is WIndows native or cygwin? I think the windows stuff may still be cygwin, but Mac and Solaris work fine with the git, of course. It's just simple posix code, after all > There are a few more people on weird platforms that will need a solution. > Are perl and shell script still a requirement? Yeah, quite a bit of both of those still. Less over time as people figure out that C code is generally easier to fix than a nasty combination of C code, shell scripts and perl line noise. --=20 keith.packard@intel.com --=-9od4ZHctCoRzCG7d07rc Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBEf7amQp8BWwlsTdMRAm0JAKCfk1WCW3vi8a7bmzccPvUAzPFxvQCguNu1 tLebuXRQ4cu/Ka59UMW37ps= =fdVB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-9od4ZHctCoRzCG7d07rc--