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From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use find instead of perl in t5000 to get file
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Johannes Schindelin, Fri, Oct 31, 2008 23:14:59 +0100:
> Hi,
> 
> On Fri, 31 Oct 2008, Alex Riesen wrote:
> 
> > ActiveState Perl on Windows is portable? To another windows, maybe.
> 
> /me wonders why you could not use the Perl that ships with Git for 
> Windows, at least for the purposes of Git.

Corporate policy and very-very incompetent IT service. Besides being
illegal to install actually usable software, there are some of
internal programs which are quite sensitive to perl (any other perl)
appearing anywhere on disk, not to mention PATH (the build system, for
one). Same for cygwin revisions.

I tried using other perl and more modern cygwin, and it can be made to
work, but it is cumbersome and boring. And one more thing to reinstall
after IT wipes your computer because you've got a new disk or they
decided you need winxp instead of w2k, or something else... So I'm
just trying reduce effort I put into what I'm not supposed to do at
work anyway.