From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tait Subject: Re: What's the status of MinGW port. Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 11:18:48 -0700 Message-ID: <20080908181848.GI27478@ece.pdx.edu> References: <42b562540809072128o62854572y1eb8d2e69e7193f1@mail.gmail.com> <42b562540809072134xed61f0as6f1201a641ec973c@mail.gmail.com> <48C4CF58.4020906@viscovery.net> <20080908110333.GH27478@ece.pdx.edu> <48C50B76.7070506@op5.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Sep 08 20:20:44 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KclLI-00067j-4m for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 08 Sep 2008 20:20:04 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753403AbYIHSSw (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Sep 2008 14:18:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753454AbYIHSSw (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Sep 2008 14:18:52 -0400 Received: from ehlo.cat.pdx.edu ([131.252.208.106]:51648 "EHLO ehlo.cat.pdx.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752814AbYIHSSv (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Sep 2008 14:18:51 -0400 Received: from nemo.ece.pdx.edu (root@nemo.ece.pdx.edu [131.252.209.162]) by ehlo.cat.pdx.edu (8.14.2/8.14.2/Debian-2build1) with ESMTP id m88IInSa012853 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 8 Sep 2008 11:18:49 -0700 Received: from nemo.ece.pdx.edu (tait@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nemo.ece.pdx.edu (8.13.6/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m88IImRQ015328 for ; Mon, 8 Sep 2008 11:18:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from tait@localhost) by nemo.ece.pdx.edu (8.13.6/8.12.6/Submit) id m88IImfo015327 for git@vger.kernel.org; Mon, 8 Sep 2008 11:18:48 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: nemo.ece.pdx.edu: tait set sender to git.git@t41t.com using -f Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <48C50B76.7070506@op5.se> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.7i X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (ehlo.cat.pdx.edu [131.252.208.106]); Mon, 08 Sep 2008 11:18:49 -0700 (PDT) X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=6.0 tests=none autolearn=failed version=3.2.5 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on ehlo.cat.pdx.edu X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.92.1/8192/Mon Sep 8 08:51:25 2008 on ehlo.cat.pdx.edu X-Virus-Status: Clean Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: >>>> Is there any plan to create a native version of GIT on MS Windows? >>>There are no plans anymore to create such a thing. >> >>Out of curiosity, any particular reason why not? > > He mentioned it in the very next sentence: It already exists. > > I guess this is beyond your attention span... The personal attack was unnecessary, and no, I'm not inattentive, thank you. My understanding is that MinGW is a POSIX emulation layer; the underlying code is still using POSIX functions like fork and exec that aren't native to Windows. When I said "native" I meant "not POSIX" -- i.e. using the Windows API directly instead of through some kind of munging layer. So I'll ask again, is there any particular reason why a _native_ Windows Git hasn't been attempted (or was abandoned, or whatever)?