Re: Windows support

[Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>]

torsdag 26 juli 2007 skrev Johannes Schindelin:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, 25 Jul 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
> > If that is the case, "Git for Windows" probably should package MSYS as 
> > part of it, I would think, to match the expectation of the users there.  
> > I know two Johannes'es and Han-Wen spent quite a lot of effort on 
> > Windows port and packaging, but perhaps that little (well, I should not 
> > be judging if that is a little or huge, as I do not do Windows) 
> > finishing touch would make Windows users much happier?
> 
> Windows users are only happy when they can bug developers.
> 
> Seriously again, the biggest problem with Han-Wen's installer was that it 
> insists on cross-compiling _all_ the packages.  This makes it easy for 
> Han-Wen to upgrade packages and compile the thing on Linux in one go.  
> However, it never worked with bash, and I could not fix it: I can read 
> Python, but not _that_ Python.

Will windows developers need to get Linux just in order to do a two line fix,
or will the build process work on Windows too (provided the developer gets
a number of extra packages).

-- robin