From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Noel Grandin Subject: Re: Windows support Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 17:34:27 +0200 Message-ID: <46A76D83.6020005@peralex.com> References: <693D0FFF-B271-4781-BCE2-3BF00C8BF426@zib.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Dmitry Kakurin , git@vger.kernel.org To: Steffen Prohaska X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Jul 26 08:32:28 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IDwtb-0006Vx-KK for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 08:32:23 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753916AbXGZGcV (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jul 2007 02:32:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753782AbXGZGcU (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jul 2007 02:32:20 -0400 Received: from [41.207.227.243] ([41.207.227.243]:59516 "EHLO mail.peralex.com" rhost-flags-FAIL-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753356AbXGZGcU (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jul 2007 02:32:20 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 53812 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 02:32:18 EDT Received: from [192.168.1.75] (noel.ct [192.168.1.75]) by mail.peralex.com (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id l6PFYR2e004183; Wed, 25 Jul 2007 17:34:27 +0200 (SAST) (envelope-from noel@peralex.com) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051201 Thunderbird/1.5 Mnenhy/0.7.3.0 In-Reply-To: <693D0FFF-B271-4781-BCE2-3BF00C8BF426@zib.de> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.2 Content-Disposition: inline X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.61 on 192.168.1.7 X-Synonym: Copied by Synonym (http://www.modulo.ro/synonym) to: mailbackup2@peralex.com, mailbackup2@peralex.com X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (mail.peralex.com [192.168.1.7]); Wed, 25 Jul 2007 17:34:28 +0200 (SAST) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Cygwin tries to make Windows look like unix (from a command-line POV), so it very much runs against the grain of "real" windows programs. Plus, it's a pain to install and invoke, and doesn't deal nicely with real windows paths (it maps the windows filesystem to a unix-y style single root path structure), Steffen Prohaska wrote: > > On Jul 25, 2007, at 12:35 PM, Dmitry Kakurin wrote: > >> How serious are you guys about Windows support? >> I'm talking fully-functional port, not Cygwin. > > What's wrong with the Cygwin port? > > Is it just that windows developer hate cygwin because it's to > complex to install or is there any severe limitation? > functionality? stability? performance? > > I'm personally only working on Windows if force to, but people > are asking me the same question that you have. Does git > seriously and fully support Windows? > > Steffen > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Disclaimer: http://www.peralex.com/disclaimer.html