From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sven Verdoolaege Subject: Re: Possibility of a MinGW version? Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2005 11:18:49 +0100 Message-ID: <20051224101849.GY1279MdfPADPa@greensroom.kotnet.org> References: <006c01c60832$86f92620$6900a8c0@sps> <43AD1E63.4040103@op5.se> Reply-To: skimo@liacs.nl Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Cc: Rob McDonald , git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Dec 24 11:19:01 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 1Eq6UK-00051x-Hs for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sat, 24 Dec 2005 11:18:56 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1422654AbVLXKSy (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 Dec 2005 05:18:54 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1422657AbVLXKSx (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 Dec 2005 05:18:53 -0500 Received: from smtp14.wxs.nl ([195.121.247.5]:12162 "EHLO smtp14.wxs.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1422654AbVLXKSx (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 Dec 2005 05:18:53 -0500 Received: from greensroom.kotnet.org (ip54515aaa.direct-adsl.nl [84.81.90.170]) by smtp14.wxs.nl (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 Patch 2 (built Jul 14 2004)) with SMTP id <0IRZ00H2UZBD1K@smtp14.wxs.nl> for git@vger.kernel.org; Sat, 24 Dec 2005 11:18:49 +0100 (CET) Received: (qmail 7874 invoked by uid 500); Sat, 24 Dec 2005 10:18:49 +0000 In-reply-to: <43AD1E63.4040103@op5.se> To: Andreas Ericsson Mail-followup-to: Andreas Ericsson , Rob McDonald , git@vger.kernel.org Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.10i Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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. > 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. skimo