From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Schindelin Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/40] MinGW port Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 23:58:30 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: References: <1204138503-6126-1-git-send-email-johannes.sixt@telecom.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Johannes Sixt X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Feb 28 01:00:05 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JUWBw-00025c-8Q for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 28 Feb 2008 01:00:04 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757940AbYB0X7E (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Feb 2008 18:59:04 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758688AbYB0X7E (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Feb 2008 18:59:04 -0500 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:49338 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1758152AbYB0X7D (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Feb 2008 18:59:03 -0500 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 27 Feb 2008 23:59:01 -0000 Received: from host86-138-198-40.range86-138.btcentralplus.com (EHLO racer.home) [86.138.198.40] by mail.gmx.net (mp017) with SMTP; 28 Feb 2008 00:59:01 +0100 X-Authenticated: #1490710 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+9s84ZqBG9/zo4n1nTp1JJiwGHw6oWLGXiqlEBZ2 X7P3NaMtxt7xTY X-X-Sender: gene099@racer.site In-Reply-To: <1204138503-6126-1-git-send-email-johannes.sixt@telecom.at> User-Agent: Alpine 1.00 (LSU 882 2007-12-20) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, On Wed, 27 Feb 2008, Johannes Sixt wrote: > - perl scripts don't work. We have a hack in the port tree, but I haven't > yet taken the time to clean it up enough. AFAICT the perl scripts work in msysGit. > - The test suite does not pass because of missing features like symbolic > links. Again we have adjusted the tests in the port tree so that the > test suite can be completed unattended. We have patches in msysGit for that. Maybe they should come _before_ the MinGW series? > I've arranged the patches in a few subsets. They are different from what > Dscho had proposed some weeks ago when I announced the series for the > first time because I felt this topical partitioning makes more sense. FWIW I like your partitioning very much! > 27/40 Windows: Implement a custom spawnve(). AFAIR this is needed to call git from git-gui, because of that fscked-up semantics of Windows' CreateProcess(). I'll try to review the patches in the next days, but I have no doubt that there is not much to complain about. Thanks, Hannes, for all your valuable and persistent work on mingw.git! Ciao, Dscho