From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marius Storm-Olsen Subject: Re: Windows support Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 18:58:38 +0200 Message-ID: <46A8D2BE.7070309@trolltech.com> References: <7v6447bxc1.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <46A8378A.6050201@xs4all.nl> <46d6db660707260521u15c2bd85j806d48e0f51a3b9@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig75FF837A3D710B8A5C6967EC" Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Johannes Schindelin To: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Jul 26 18:58:54 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 1IE6ft-0007gf-Ed for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 18:58:53 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934577AbXGZQ6o (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jul 2007 12:58:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1761832AbXGZQ6n (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jul 2007 12:58:43 -0400 Received: from esparsett.troll.no ([62.70.27.18]:51471 "EHLO esparsett.troll.no" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S934558AbXGZQ6m (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jul 2007 12:58:42 -0400 Received: from esparsett.troll.no (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with SMTP id AE29274196; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 18:58:39 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [172.20.1.78] (unknown [172.20.1.78]) by esparsett.troll.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73C3174193; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 18:58:39 +0200 (CEST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.5) Gecko/20070716 Thunderbird/2.0.0.5 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.2 OpenPGP: id=34EB4437 Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwBAMAAAClLOS0AAAAFVBMVEXU1NTAwMABAQGsrKyE hIQwMDAEBAS8hGUfAAACQUlEQVQ4jV2TS47cMAxEKSDZW1CfwMB4PYLkrKchsveJRR2gEen+R0hR 9vziBmahhyqSRQ4NfF1FmIv3dH4usNAGoFprBVguQJmZ1nX0XiHgEukTCK3TairiZeXcVGzmZIoU 3738pehdVbiU9KFgMQWeZ1fpHZDfRS4rPb3eQVaZChGx4ikt5GDkAZQ2KKohzjklno4+iJpVhxka ZjSpasJ4gdGaEQMWTMjRa5uTqza0XDJjzhIdzGTMrqoopimoIPCKZtVOq265MAXpMLXycmVl2Y8C oE1FkT/faKauOjYoHJyOxHfvixjowvI0xZJsKykubgLYzuJMdBO+L86TjxfQ9hz9jpSudbnXXzRm tor5i3MUONpOfARAhlWbzWF7OhP2eSeEW9HUBNiHOxUM8HLWHhUAj3NZNsdqRZpNA+DJ+XlX+Qc9 Z4ZjHX8LRUzgTBBef84NQoCMOcS0+BMsj3klbTzRri03ugXr9em1GfgzDAyEn4J3fvFI5YwdTrYu 1ntAY1h5ysM2OMGm+cBOocCXHisAHu2PagnLghoG2krz8bzsA4fj7KxCGk+63jt+DDCtYjbFNkHD nRwpRqsQYx5WYzsbm/eBfn0I4TbOGvMWqhQAiEDzNs4apumCI0x2OyHtY7uAlZff/sanbH9+AGT1 KOEmUlJISdYPgEgehw+cTZEf6xeFyoEjCPgv+A62KhW3EOy9PL7WmCBMRWmfYN0OqW9krzl/Ay91 75HMqfDtP8UFckFUX2rwrm/kTVB2gH+hdu4avZVCuAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig75FF837A3D710B8A5C6967EC Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote: > On 7/26/07, Johannes Schindelin wrote: >> Thank you for working on this! >> >> However, I am not completely convinced that having a builtin shell is = all >> that useful. I for one would like to have MinGW busybox _separate_ fr= om >> git... >=20 > I make MinGW busybox part of git for some reasons: >=20 > - Making a full MinGW busybox would take lots of time. I don't need > busybox for Windows. What I need is a shell and enough POSIX utilities > to run git shell scripts without any dependencies. Windows users > (including myself when I have to use Windows) hate dependencies. > - I don't want MinGW busybox to be used outside of git (if it is > installed separated from git), there are cygwin and msys already. I > don't want to compete them. And I don't like conflicts (not sure > though) because you have multiple UNIX emulations on the same system. (..snip..) Hi Duy, *drool* This was an extremely good idea! Thank you so much for working on it! I'll be sure to play around with it, and see if there's any way I can help out. Guess I finally have to get that MinGW compile environment set up then :-) Btw, are you compiling with MinGW on Windows, or cross-compiling on Linux= ? Neat neat neat! -- =2Emarius --------------enig75FF837A3D710B8A5C6967EC Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (MingW32) iD8DBQFGqNK+KzzXl/njVP8RAn0+AJ0XceMNp7wjQyYVZGgRjWhQRHO9ngCcCeBM N61A6opfM8MvFNy2sSjcsZI= =EyDb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig75FF837A3D710B8A5C6967EC--