From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marius Storm-Olsen Subject: Re: Git on MSys (or how to make it easy for Windows users to compile git) Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2007 09:10:17 +0200 Message-ID: <46B2D4D9.4020103@trolltech.com> References: <460B6BF8541C4D9B916F02A12E0576F5@ntdev.corp.microsoft.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigC194C56654CD8A08DC28D938" Cc: Johannes Schindelin , git@vger.kernel.org To: Dmitry Kakurin X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Aug 03 09:09:33 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 1IGrHw-0001Gn-1P for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Fri, 03 Aug 2007 09:09:32 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757564AbXHCHJ3 (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Aug 2007 03:09:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757516AbXHCHJ3 (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Aug 2007 03:09:29 -0400 Received: from esparsett.troll.no ([62.70.27.18]:53934 "EHLO esparsett.troll.no" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757349AbXHCHJ2 (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Aug 2007 03:09:28 -0400 Received: from esparsett.troll.no (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with SMTP id 517FC74252; Fri, 3 Aug 2007 09:09:26 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [10.3.4.215] (error.troll.no [10.3.4.215]) by esparsett.troll.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 452A974245; Fri, 3 Aug 2007 09:09:26 +0200 (CEST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070728 Thunderbird/2.0.0.6 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: <460B6BF8541C4D9B916F02A12E0576F5@ntdev.corp.microsoft.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.2 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) --------------enigC194C56654CD8A08DC28D938 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Dmitry Kakurin said the following on 03.08.2007 08:56: > Great job! Because finding and installing MSys, MinGW and dependencies = was not trivial at all. > I have 2 suggestions for this package: > 1. Remove git repository from it. It will make a download much smaller = (~20MB smaller) and include the minimum git functionality to=20 > pull mingw git from the server (may be even automatically on first star= tup). > 2. Add gdb. Not much could be done without it. >=20 > With this package (+gdb) it took me about an hour to figure out why git= is broken on Vista (this includes learning how to use gdb=20 > :-). So you should expect much higher level of participation on the Win= dows side. >=20 > P.S. If package becomes sufficiently small for a single file, try to re= move 7zip dependency (use WinZip instead). The easier the=20 > installation the better. Heh, why don't you try to do this yourself? Johannes as kind enough to=20 go out of his way to actually do all that he has already. Seems like you feel strongly for it, so it shouldn't be too much=20 effort for you. If you provide Johannes with a link to a package of=20 which you speak, I'm sure he'll happily upload it to the google=20 project page. --=20 =2Emarius --------------enigC194C56654CD8A08DC28D938 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) iD8DBQFGstTZKzzXl/njVP8RArIyAJ0Y0S0uizNnkK8sTShdnwEK7JSengCfbXUL EwUHq7FGvf48klVUa5VgdVk= =iZzu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigC194C56654CD8A08DC28D938--