From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Robin Rosenberg Subject: Re: Windows support Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 11:11:53 +0200 Message-ID: <200707261111.54439.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com> References: <7v6447bxc1.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Junio C Hamano , "Shawn O. Pearce" , Dmitry Kakurin , Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy , git@vger.kernel.org To: Johannes Schindelin X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Jul 26 11:10:50 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 1IDzMv-00063u-Jv for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 11:10:49 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759324AbXGZJKq (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jul 2007 05:10:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759186AbXGZJKq (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jul 2007 05:10:46 -0400 Received: from [83.140.172.130] ([83.140.172.130]:1111 "EHLO dewire.com" rhost-flags-FAIL-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758539AbXGZJKp (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jul 2007 05:10:45 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dewire.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0E1880266C; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 11:03:26 +0200 (CEST) Received: from dewire.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (torino [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 18229-04; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 11:03:26 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [10.9.0.3] (unknown [10.9.0.3]) by dewire.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5614B80264B; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 11:03:26 +0200 (CEST) User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at dewire.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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