From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Dmitry Kakurin" Subject: Re: Windows support Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 19:56:02 -0700 Message-ID: References: <46A73015.7020306@midwinter.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: "Steven Grimm" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Jul 26 04:56:10 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 1IDtWL-0001ar-Ru for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 04:56:10 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756439AbXGZC4H (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jul 2007 22:56:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756285AbXGZC4G (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jul 2007 22:56:06 -0400 Received: from rv-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.198.188]:42925 "EHLO rv-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756087AbXGZC4D (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jul 2007 22:56:03 -0400 Received: by rv-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id k20so15736rvb for ; Wed, 25 Jul 2007 19:56:02 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=dWGD4Nbyl1DP9LtkSiQpch+DtH22TbBtX94HVoS3ij90lcCaCFcUc2Q3Tbi7Z1JpT3bU9wEDwaZhoAm5AhL5roVjkrxr3k7NW1oY7mHUM1IN9jfdz4h3Aw5/gyT7/MUankovvBrFuvc2Vevcd01ydWI3AGNH9Z1XIOJGKtf6s+c= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=Tsh5lyCWkxo2tQ7Ux+334UTQxsRASDc813I4WkMggrJdhxQWfOZN3AamRJBtrqcmO0P6XOu7zJ4C4QNv2/Woac+M/Q78EvP4lhHX4Es7YGVSGPWs0MBX8+XBszJ0LnSaAqArKo5pktkEdZdpkBnWazGRcsMtL3YVdCKhMCf6VRI= Received: by 10.141.34.12 with SMTP id m12mr414154rvj.1185418562641; Wed, 25 Jul 2007 19:56:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.141.2.18 with HTTP; Wed, 25 Jul 2007 19:56:02 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <46A73015.7020306@midwinter.com> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 7/25/07, Steven Grimm 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