From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Ericsson Subject: Re: Possibility of a MinGW version? Date: Sun, 25 Dec 2005 00:44:47 +0100 Message-ID: <43ADDD6F.7010502@op5.se> References: <006c01c60832$86f92620$6900a8c0@sps> <43AD1E63.4040103@op5.se> <7vwthus7gr.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Dec 25 00:45:08 2005 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EqJ4O-0006iO-Dx for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sun, 25 Dec 2005 00:45:00 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750758AbVLXXo5 (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 Dec 2005 18:44:57 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750760AbVLXXo5 (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 Dec 2005 18:44:57 -0500 Received: from pne-smtpout1-sn2.hy.skanova.net ([81.228.8.83]:65486 "EHLO pne-smtpout1-sn2.hy.skanova.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750758AbVLXXo4 (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 Dec 2005 18:44:56 -0500 Received: from [192.168.1.42] (217.210.107.34) by pne-smtpout1-sn2.hy.skanova.net (7.2.069.1) id 43AA7832000B9759; Sun, 25 Dec 2005 00:44:47 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7-1.1.fc4 (X11/20050929) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en To: Junio C Hamano In-Reply-To: <7vwthus7gr.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Junio C Hamano wrote: > Andreas Ericsson writes: > > >>The fact that there are 39 bash'ish shell-scripts does little to help a >>native port... > > > Can you defend that "bash'ism" comment for all 39? The one I > know of and would want to get rid of its bashism by rewriting is > git-grep, but most of them I thought was plain POSIX. > Not really, no. I meant "there are 39 shell-scripts known to work with bash but not necessarily known to fail with any other shell", which usually means "it will break with some shell or other, although the shell that breaks is unusual enough for everyone not to have tested it yet". I'm probably being a bit super-anal and anti-MS biased. I wrote the first mail being terribly hung over and this one being slightly tipsy. I now get the feeling that everything will work out for the best. Happy christmas everyone. -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.ericsson@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231