From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Schindelin Subject: Re: Windows support Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 07:40:08 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: References: <7vps2fc196.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <20070726031838.GO32566@spearce.org> <7v6447bxc1.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <46A8378A.6050201@xs4all.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano , "Shawn O. Pearce" , Dmitry Kakurin , Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy To: Han-Wen Nienhuys X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Jul 26 08:40:17 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 1IDx1E-0001Ng-Vg for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 08:40:17 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755257AbXGZGkO (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jul 2007 02:40:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754419AbXGZGkO (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jul 2007 02:40:14 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:42028 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1754712AbXGZGkN (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jul 2007 02:40:13 -0400 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 26 Jul 2007 06:40:11 -0000 Received: from wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de (EHLO openvpn-client) [132.187.25.13] by mail.gmx.net (mp045) with SMTP; 26 Jul 2007 08:40:11 +0200 X-Authenticated: #1490710 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX19qpCt7ZsBqzCrneaGLSi04EHDe2WYP9SabNgPHbZ rDvJGf53NQPouO X-X-Sender: gene099@racer.site In-Reply-To: <46A8378A.6050201@xs4all.nl> X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, [Funny, you quoted me, but culled _me_ from the Cc: list] On Wed, 25 Jul 2007, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: > 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. For me, it is. Probably you know by now that I am not really a fan of Python, mainly because people can write unelegant code which looks elegant. > 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. Will do. Did you succeed in adding perl? It is not that important, because I plan to make git-gui the main user interface with this installer. But Junio keeps adding Perl scripts (ATM add -i and remote) that I have to convert later... Ciao, Dscho