From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Ericsson Subject: Re: [PATCH] fmt-merge-msg: avoid open "-|" list form for Perl 5.6 Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 14:29:48 +0100 Message-ID: <43FDB8CC.5000503@op5.se> References: <20060221215742.GA5948@steel.home> <43FB9656.8050308@vilain.net> <81b0412b0602220835p4c4243edm145ee827eb706121@mail.gmail.com> <81b0412b0602230000t58a88af6na1aa7e323dc0179d@mail.gmail.com> <7vwtfmihts.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <81b0412b0602230135w472aa6f3v72980f6f63bb355f@mail.gmail.com> <81b0412b0602230141g46dbfaev6baa5083dee2d42@mail.gmail.com> <43FD84EB.3040704@op5.se> <81b0412b0602230210r3ffe6e2dta5dc86d6516692b9@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Feb 23 14:30:10 2006 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 1FCGXZ-000441-9D for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 23 Feb 2006 14:29:53 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751373AbWBWN3u (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Feb 2006 08:29:50 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751389AbWBWN3u (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Feb 2006 08:29:50 -0500 Received: from linux-server1.op5.se ([193.201.96.2]:41857 "EHLO smtp-gw1.op5.se") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751373AbWBWN3t (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Feb 2006 08:29:49 -0500 Received: from [192.168.1.20] (1-2-9-7a.gkp.gbg.bostream.se [82.182.116.44]) by smtp-gw1.op5.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FB2C6BCBE; Thu, 23 Feb 2006 14:29:48 +0100 (CET) User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7-1.1.fc4 (X11/20050929) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en To: Alex Riesen In-Reply-To: <81b0412b0602230210r3ffe6e2dta5dc86d6516692b9@mail.gmail.com> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Alex Riesen wrote: > On 2/23/06, Andreas Ericsson wrote: > >>Not to be unhelpful or anything, but activestate perl seems to be quite >>a lot of bother. Is it worth supporting it? > > > It's not activestate perl actually. It's only one platform it also > _has_ to support. > Is it worth supporting Windows? With or without cygwin? With cygwin, I'd say "yes, unless it makes things terribly difficult to maintain and so long as we don't take performance hits on unices". Without cygwin, I'd say "What? It runs on windows?". If we claim to support windows but do a poor job of it, no-one else will start working on a windows-port. If we don't claim to support windows but say that "it's known to work with cygwin, although be aware of these performance penalties...", eventually someone will come along with their shiny Visual Express and hack up support for it, even if some tools will be missing and others unnecessarily complicated. -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.ericsson@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231