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From: "Dmitry Kakurin" <dmitry.kakurin@gmail.com>
To: "Steven Grimm" <koreth@midwinter.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Windows support
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 19:56:02 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a1bbc6950707251956h3db847c9v8db438f4c665b2cf@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46A73015.7020306@midwinter.com>

On 7/25/07, Steven Grimm <koreth@midwinter.com> wrote:
> > How serious are you guys about Windows support?
> Much (nearly all?) of the core git team never touches Windows, so they
> both have no selfish motivation to get it working well and no way to
> test their changes even if they decide to take it up for the greater good.

This actually answers my question (if it's true).
If core team is not interested in supporting Windows then I cannot
trust this system with my source code :-(.

My concerns are (mostly):
* lack of (or insufficient) testing for Windows platform
* possibly lower code quality of Windows port, since core devs don't
touch it and don't care
* possible troubles with support if issues arise
* Windows port could become abandoned if those few brave people, who
work on it right now will leave

In short, all kinds of issues associated with software not being a
first class citizen :-).

- Dmitry

  reply	other threads:[~2007-07-26  2:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 69+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-25 10:35 Windows support Dmitry Kakurin
2007-07-25 10:40 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-08-02  6:57   ` Asger Ottar Alstrup
2007-08-02 10:45     ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-25 11:12 ` Steven Grimm
2007-07-26  2:56   ` Dmitry Kakurin [this message]
2007-07-26  3:15     ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-07-26  6:25       ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-07-26  6:53         ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-07-26  9:41           ` Marius Storm-Olsen
2007-07-26  9:44             ` Marius Storm-Olsen
2007-07-26  5:11     ` Steven Grimm
2007-07-25 11:13 ` Steven Grimm
2007-07-25 12:13 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2007-07-25 14:10   ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-25 14:15     ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2007-07-25 17:13       ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-26 13:00       ` Christian MICHON
2007-07-26 13:20         ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2007-07-26 13:32           ` Christian MICHON
2007-07-26 13:55             ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2007-07-26 15:25               ` Johannes Sixt
2007-07-26  2:26   ` Dmitry Kakurin
2007-07-26  3:06     ` Junio C Hamano
2007-07-26  3:18       ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-07-26  4:30         ` Junio C Hamano
2007-07-26  5:28           ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-26  5:56             ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2007-07-26  6:40               ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-26  7:02                 ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2007-07-26  7:13                   ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-07-26  7:18                     ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2007-07-26 21:39                       ` Jakub Narebski
2007-07-26  7:52                     ` Julian Phillips
2007-07-26 11:29                   ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2007-07-26 12:21                     ` Christian MICHON
2007-07-26 12:37                       ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2007-07-26 14:37                         ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-26 15:07                           ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2007-07-26 15:43                             ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-26 16:11                               ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2007-07-26 18:13                                 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-26 19:39                                   ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2007-07-26 20:04                                     ` David Kastrup
2007-07-26 18:18                                 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-26 16:58                             ` Marius Storm-Olsen
2007-07-26 19:43                               ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2007-07-26 20:02                                 ` Christian MICHON
2007-07-26  9:11             ` Robin Rosenberg
2007-07-26 10:35               ` Johannes Sixt
2007-07-26  3:38     ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-26  3:54       ` Dmitry Kakurin
2007-07-26  4:00       ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-07-26  5:30         ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-26  6:08           ` Henning Rogge
2007-07-26  8:14             ` Andy Parkins
2007-07-25 12:30 ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-07-25 15:34   ` Noel Grandin
2007-07-26  6:46     ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-26  6:48       ` Junio C Hamano
2007-07-25 16:58   ` Stephen Cuppett
2007-07-25 17:56     ` Russ Dill
2007-07-25 19:04       ` Medve Emilian-EMMEDVE1
2007-07-25 19:13         ` Russ Dill
2007-07-25 18:43     ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-25 22:52       ` Wincent Colaiuta
2007-07-26  9:30       ` Marius Storm-Olsen
2007-07-26  3:36     ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-07-25 17:41 ` Daniel Barkalow

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