From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Eric S. Raymond" Subject: Re: Re: Python extension commands in git - request for policy change Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2012 05:33:17 -0500 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs Message-ID: <20121125103316.GA24514@thyrsus.com> References: <20121125024451.1ADD14065F@snark.thyrsus.com> Reply-To: esr@thyrsus.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy , git@vger.kernel.org, msysGit To: Pat Thoyts X-From: msysgit+bncBCKNNHOUZUERBQ7IY6CQKGQEUOMIAQI@googlegroups.com Sun Nov 25 11:35:02 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvm-msysgit@m.gmane.org Received: from mail-qa0-f58.google.com ([209.85.216.58]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TcZY7-0006aj-UI for gcvm-msysgit@m.gmane.org; Sun, 25 Nov 2012 11:34:56 +0100 Received: by mail-qa0-f58.google.com with SMTP id a17sf2082608qae.3 for ; Sun, 25 Nov 2012 02:34:44 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlegroups.com; s=20120806; h=x-beenthere:received-spf:date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id :reply-to:references:mime-version:in-reply-to:organization :x-eric-conspiracy:user-agent:x-original-sender :x-original-authentication-results:precedence:mailing-list:list-id :x-google-group-id:list-post:list-help:list-archive:sender :list-subscribe:list-unsubscribe:content-type:content-disposition; bh=L5NT9gIHaInXkj85FEjlQJiUI2/UXE2/lqqzGWMOH9c=; b=UDjLbfhXrME1xl2XYr5vVHgJpNgafhqUKYPpguKUpmYeuehyDLPOET4km614RIO3Fq +OkRaZw/BESm7uo1F1zO3KjWVdVm2VifOGSwF3Wzev7yW+aLQ4iiWqNRjyR7oKRFYPUg i3LIXBWMZkgj/b0Wqcq+snh9FDusz5ALtbtjqnbbnE+ykEL6wKMTrKkU1nYS0LooHdBg ErhRfoRQBxV2Bpv7eFFJgiF2dSzYLSnvYcOl4Lmqg5DfNalDghAY6g77KA/eC86rvAK5 GqQJe0VDOZf/7K Received: by 10.49.24.13 with SMTP id q13mr1637713qef.33.1353839684300; Sun, 25 Nov 2012 02:34:44 -0800 (PST) X-BeenThere: msysgit@googlegroups.com Received: by 10.49.94.82 with SMTP id da18ls1292095qeb.26.gmail; Sun, 25 Nov 2012 02:34:43 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.224.173.202 with SMTP id q10mr5844950qaz.3.1353839683630; Sun, 25 Nov 2012 02:34:43 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.224.174.76 with SMTP id s12msqaz; Sun, 25 Nov 2012 02:34:08 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.59.0.194 with SMTP id ba2mr2683905ved.19.1353839648446; Sun, 25 Nov 2012 02:34:08 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.59.0.194 with SMTP id ba2mr2683904ved.19.1353839648436; Sun, 25 Nov 2012 02:34:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from snark.thyrsus.com ([2002:47a2:f305:1:2877:c35b:11a0:30fa]) by gmr-mx.google.com with ESMTP id bn19si834020vdb.0.2012.11.25.02.34.08; Sun, 25 Nov 2012 02:34:08 -0800 (PST) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of esr@thyrsus.com designates 2002:47a2:f305:1:2877:c35b:11a0:30fa as permitted sender) client-ip=2002:47a2:f305:1:2877:c35b:11a0:30fa; Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 1969740661; Sun, 25 Nov 2012 05:33:17 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Original-Sender: esr@thyrsus.com X-Original-Authentication-Results: gmr-mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of esr@thyrsus.com designates 2002:47a2:f305:1:2877:c35b:11a0:30fa as permitted sender) smtp.mail=esr@thyrsus.com Precedence: list Mailing-list: list msysgit@googlegroups.com; contact msysgit+owners@googlegroups.com List-ID: X-Google-Group-Id: 152234828034 List-Post: , List-Help: , List-Archive: Sender: msysgit@googlegroups.com List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , Content-Disposition: inline Archived-At: Pat Thoyts : > Git for Windows simply ships everything we need to run git - so if a > desirable module requires a version of python, we will add that > version plus any required modules into the installer. We already have > a patch to provide python in the msysgit tree - it would just require > polishing up a little. I'm certain this is no problem for the other > windows port (cygwin) either. Thank you - I think this completely disposes of the "Windows is a blocker for scripting language X" argument, with the case X = Python in point. -- Eric S. Raymond -- *** Please reply-to-all at all times *** *** (do not pretend to know who is subscribed and who is not) *** *** Please avoid top-posting. *** The msysGit Wiki is here: https://github.com/msysgit/msysgit/wiki - Github accounts are free. You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "msysGit" group. To post to this group, send email to msysgit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to msysgit+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com For more options, and view previous threads, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/msysgit?hl=en_US?hl=en