From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Han-Wen Nienhuys Subject: Re: Windows support Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 22:56:26 -0700 Message-ID: <46A8378A.6050201@xs4all.nl> References: <7vps2fc196.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <20070726031838.GO32566@spearce.org> <7v6447bxc1.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Junio C Hamano , "Shawn O. Pearce" , Dmitry Kakurin , Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy , git@vger.kernel.org To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Jul 26 07:56:40 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 1IDwL2-00039u-Gp for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 07:56:40 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753782AbXGZF4i (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jul 2007 01:56:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753688AbXGZF4h (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jul 2007 01:56:37 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:54493 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752706AbXGZF4g (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jul 2007 01:56:36 -0400 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1IDwKw-00051a-Sp for git@vger.kernel.org; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 07:56:34 +0200 Received: from c-24-6-173-165.hsd1.ca.comcast.net ([24.6.173.165]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 07:56:34 +0200 Received: from hanwen by c-24-6-173-165.hsd1.ca.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 07:56:34 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-24-6-173-165.hsd1.ca.comcast.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (X11/20070604) In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Johannes Schindelin wrote: >> If that is the case, "Git for Windows" probably should package MSYS as >> part of it, I would think, to match the expectation of the users there. >> I know two Johannes'es and Han-Wen spent quite a lot of effort on >> Windows port and packaging, but perhaps that little (well, I should not >> be judging if that is a little or huge, as I do not do Windows) >> finishing touch would make Windows users much happier? > > Windows users are only happy when they can bug developers. > > Seriously again, the biggest problem with Han-Wen's installer was that it > insists on cross-compiling _all_ the packages. This makes it easy for > Han-Wen to upgrade packages and compile the thing on Linux in one go. > However, it never worked with bash, and I could not fix it: I can read > Python, but not _that_ Python. > The problem is not really the python. If you supply me with a shell script that will x-compile bash, I'll hapily code the python spec. IMO the real problem is that bash is a unix shell (tied to unix internals) and therefore, compiling it for something as horrid as windows is far from trivial. fwiw, I briefly tried compiling msys, but I couldn't even find its sources, so I quickly gave up. A second option is that someone supplies me with an unpacked, installed tree of msys' bash shell. I can easily package that up along with the rest of the installer, if it doesnt' require further trickery (setting registry entries, etc.)