From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Shawn O. Pearce" Subject: Re: Windows support Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 23:18:38 -0400 Message-ID: <20070726031838.GO32566@spearce.org> References: <7vps2fc196.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Dmitry Kakurin , Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy , git@vger.kernel.org To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Jul 26 05:18:53 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IDtsF-0005j7-JR for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 05:18:47 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756462AbXGZDSo (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jul 2007 23:18:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756073AbXGZDSo (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jul 2007 23:18:44 -0400 Received: from corvette.plexpod.net ([64.38.20.226]:38496 "EHLO corvette.plexpod.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756018AbXGZDSn (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jul 2007 23:18:43 -0400 Received: from [74.70.48.173] (helo=asimov.home.spearce.org) by corvette.plexpod.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.66) (envelope-from ) id 1IDtrx-0005mF-Hs; Wed, 25 Jul 2007 23:18:29 -0400 Received: by asimov.home.spearce.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 973C1230809; Wed, 25 Jul 2007 23:18:39 -0400 (EDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7vps2fc196.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - corvette.plexpod.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - vger.kernel.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [0 0] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - spearce.org Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Junio C Hamano wrote: > "Dmitry Kakurin" writes: > > > On 7/25/07, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote: > >> What features is mingw port missing? > > Well, 'git commit' from a regular cmd prompt does not work. > > IMHO, That's a pretty serious omission :-). > > I was under the impression that is only because you do not have > MSYS installed. Doesn't Windows people have automated way to > pull and install other packages on the dependency? Package management? On Windows? Surely you aren't talking about that silly "Add/Remove Programs" control panel that just destroys your machine. I do know the best way to uninstall dependencies on Windows is to boot a live Linux CD and `mkfs /dev/hda1`. But as far as installing things go you pray that your vendor has packaged everything you need in their shiny click-through installer thing, and if they haven't, you cry wolf and switch to another vendor. -- Shawn.