Re: Windows support

[Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>]

Hi,

On Thu, 26 Jul 2007, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote:

> On 7/26/07, Christian MICHON <christian.michon@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 7/26/07, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > microperl [1] maybe? I haven't tried it yet.
> > >
> > 
> > it won't work. I tried that few months back.
> > 
> > plus the fact you'll still need perl modules.
> > 
> > I just had a look at your gitbox gitweb. Did you really manage
> > to get busybox-1.6.1 to work with mingw ?
> 
> Most of tools (that are included) work fine. Ash almost works. It can 
> run git status, git commit, git clone.. and most of test cases. There 
> are still some missing pieces and bugs to hunt down though.

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_ from 
git...

Yes, you could not use the nice "ln -s busybox ash" idiom, since Windows 
lacks symlinks, but you could still say "busybox ash" with a relatively 
small, single executable.

Ciao,
Dscho