From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Joshua Juran Subject: Re: Git, C89, and older compilers Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:22:41 -0700 Message-ID: <56939ADC-AF71-4DB7-94FD-99BE3947ACFA@gmail.com> References: <9D199AAA-5EC6-4E7C-AC26-0CDA68341D00@gmail.com> <76718490903311432l7fba411fw4a0afff10fdf3da4@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v753.1) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Jay Soffian X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Apr 01 00:24:27 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LomNY-0006qP-Li for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 01 Apr 2009 00:24:21 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756747AbZCaWWs (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:22:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755530AbZCaWWs (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:22:48 -0400 Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com ([209.85.146.183]:26175 "EHLO wa-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753445AbZCaWWr (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:22:47 -0400 Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id j5so1797561wah.21 for ; Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:22:45 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:in-reply-to:references :mime-version:content-type:message-id:cc:content-transfer-encoding :from:subject:date:to:x-mailer; bh=3lOpvjx9Au5Btuw/Fb9XQK4dJ3EOS109SNGbEksZy8M=; b=Rne6GcFpvbz5fXULiKYNmY4ow3vMc8UdI8XJqF1Vy1PCU8otW0bhKtPP6Bc8Yr3KFN m7qCcdUzCES32sbRFOwkgQP6nGSa9oDJVUg/y2uYRvKSobHO8hxM9hsMF14W30+vqQFt NnUq9rmVWOkM+6WCAhQbsiN4W1+cjXGJwyYBM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=in-reply-to:references:mime-version:content-type:message-id:cc :content-transfer-encoding:from:subject:date:to:x-mailer; b=s6uxXi343DKoiYJoK7K2jnlK1zWZHFX/5iJFE1ufZnIAY3bwaqS5xemaRKbbuTsDUH iqoUXpqWstREtXaCZiA/CTs0ludQanxh7iHqiJTlPiE26jv7wvq6TG6vXULu9FMhJSI8 oenIXg/F//UDEzp1qdPaXtx0wgX4O/P4tj8/Q= Received: by 10.114.181.6 with SMTP id d6mr4704161waf.94.1238538165742; Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:22:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.1.24? (c-71-227-175-60.hsd1.wa.comcast.net [71.227.175.60]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id z20sm3748629pod.26.2009.03.31.15.22.44 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:22:44 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <76718490903311432l7fba411fw4a0afff10fdf3da4@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.753.1) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Mar 31, 2009, at 2:32 PM, Jay Soffian wrote: > On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 3:26 PM, Joshua Juran > 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