Re: [msysGit] Re: Windows binaries for qgit 2.0

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

Hi,

On Mon, 17 Dec 2007, Abdelrazak Younes wrote:

> Marco Costalba wrote:
> > On Dec 16, 2007 12:11 PM, Abdelrazak Younes <younes.a@free.fr> wrote:
> > > Actually you might prefer to just use the LyX dependencies package that
> > > we provide for Windows developers, it contains Qt. I paste here the
> > > relevant part of our 'INSTALL.Win32':
> > > 
> > 
> > Thanks, I've tried it but without success because I need MSVC 2005
> > installed, and currently is not.
> 
> Right.
> 
> > 
> > Anyhow for now I have produced a version with mingw that seems more or
> > less to work, when I have a bit of time I will install MSVC 2005 and
> > try if with that compiler is better...
> 
> I would like to help you with that but I can't retrieve the repository:
> 
> $ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/qgit/qgit4.git qgit4.git
> Initialized empty Git repository in d:/devel/git/qgit4/qgit4.git/.git/
> git.kernel.org[0: 130.239.17.7]: errno=Invalid argument
> git.kernel.org[1: 199.6.1.166]: errno=Bad file descriptor
> git.kernel.org[2: 204.152.191.8]: errno=Bad file descriptor
> git.kernel.org[3: 204.152.191.40]: errno=Bad file descriptor
> fatal: unable to connect a socket (Bad file descriptor)
> fetch-pack from 'git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/qgit/qgit4.git' failed.
> 
> $ git clone http://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/qgit/qgit4.git qgit4.git
> Initialized empty Git repository in d:/devel/git/qgit4/qgit4.git/.git/
> Cannot get remote repository information.
> Perhaps git-update-server-info needs to be run there?
> 
> $ git --version
> git version 1.5.3.6.1791.gfd264
> 
> 'git clone ssh://...' seems to work but I guess I need a login and password?
> 
> Maybe I am doing something wrong here? Sorry, my first time ever with git...
> 
> Abdel.
> 
> PS: Sorry for the cross posting but I guess this issue is maybe of
> interest to msysgit people.

Why would anything that has to do with MSVC2005 be interesting to msysGit?  
Note the "msys" part of "msysGit".

FWIW a member of our team works on compiling/including qgit into msysGit.  
But definitely not using closed-source compilers.  I would violently 
oppose that.

Ciao,
Dscho