From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Schindelin Subject: Re: Windows support Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 15:37:21 +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> <46d6db660707260521u15c2bd85j806d48e0f51a3b9@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Jul 26 16:37:33 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 1IE4T5-0007RR-5C for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 16:37:31 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753808AbXGZOh1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jul 2007 10:37:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755158AbXGZOh1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jul 2007 10:37:27 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:58677 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1753702AbXGZOh0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jul 2007 10:37:26 -0400 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 26 Jul 2007 14:37:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (EHLO [138.251.11.74]) [138.251.11.74] by mail.gmx.net (mp058) with SMTP; 26 Jul 2007 16:37:24 +0200 X-Authenticated: #1490710 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/Sx75M0zDSO+COWeyDD8JUUXahgwNFdxD0dmBKTI jokR0HWG9QZvXa X-X-Sender: gene099@racer.site In-Reply-To: X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, On Thu, 26 Jul 2007, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote: > On 7/26/07, Christian MICHON wrote: > > On 7/26/07, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy 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