Re: Git, C89, and older compilers

[Joshua Juran <jjuran@gmail.com>]

On Mar 31, 2009, at 2:32 PM, Jay Soffian wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 3:26 PM, Joshua Juran <jjuran@gmail.com>  
> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm porting Git to Lamp (Lamp ain't Mac POSIX), a Unix-like  
>> environment
>> which runs in classic Mac OS, much like Cygwin.
>
> Call it morbid curiosity, but, why? (If I had to guess, I'd assume a
> George Mallory answer.)

Well, there's a degree of that.

Even more succinctly, I could add "inertia".  I started writing a  
replacement for Apple's MPW (one that would actually be useful for  
real work) over ten years ago, and never reached a point where I was  
ready to quit, even after switching to OS X.

Admittedly, there's an element of retro-programming.  I want to see  
how far I can go with this.  (One of my major hurdles will be git's  
use of fork().)

But there's also a sense of awe and wonder in knowing that I'm (most  
probably) the only person in the world working on such a project.

Finally, I've begun using it as a research platform.  With  
inspiration from Plan 9, I'm mapping the GUI into the filesystem, so  
you can write an application as a collection of shell scripts.

Josh