From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jakub Narebski Subject: Re: Importing Mozilla CVS into git Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2006 17:58:37 +0200 Organization: At home Message-ID: References: <9e4733910606011521n106f8f24s6c7053ce51e3791e@mail.gmail.com> <9e4733910606011936i725e8eb2h8c2357f3688da43e@mail.gmail.com> <1149219593.5521.34.camel@neko.keithp.com> <9e4733910606012047h727a25f1vb367c880f8933c4e@mail.gmail.com> <1149220518.5521.43.camel@neko.keithp.com> <9e4733910606012100s7ace4721le6fbfbcaadfb6c43@mail.gmail.com> <20060602041107.GA5429@spearce.org> <1149223164.2443.33.camel@dv> <9e4733910606012144p5f4fda26sdc2de2cc77b71fe7@mail.gmail.com> <9e4733910606070830g24a08771i1a332552a95283d1@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Jun 07 17:59:54 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Fo0RU-0000bZ-Id for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 07 Jun 2006 17:59:36 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932276AbWFGP7e (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Jun 2006 11:59:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932279AbWFGP7d (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Jun 2006 11:59:33 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:48598 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932276AbWFGP7d (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Jun 2006 11:59:33 -0400 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Fo0Qq-0000RA-7W for git@vger.kernel.org; Wed, 07 Jun 2006 17:58:56 +0200 Received: from 193.0.122.19 ([193.0.122.19]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 07 Jun 2006 17:58:56 +0200 Received: from jnareb by 193.0.122.19 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 07 Jun 2006 17:58:56 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: git@vger.kernel.org X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 193.0.122.19 User-Agent: KNode/0.7.7 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Jon Smirl wrote: > On 6/7/06, Igor Bukanov wrote: >> On 6/2/06, Jon Smirl wrote: >>> On 6/2/06, Pavel Roskin wrote: >>>> Dependency on Cygwin, Perl and Python is too much. Windows is becoming >>>> a legacy system in some circles, and it may run on legacy hardware. Yet >>>> it's irreplaceable as a testing platform for many projects. >>> >>> 80% of Mozilla commiters are running Windows. Some are OS bilingual >>> but many are not. >> >> Mozilla build system on Windows requires Cygwin and there are 198 Perl >> files in Firefox tree. So it is only Python that can be problematic. > > Other people have sent me mail saying this may not be as big as > problem as was thought, only documentation people on WIndows may be an > issues. With 1.4.0 there should be tar files of documentation. For now, one can use html and man branches of git.git repository: see the INSTALL file and/or http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitDocumentation -- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland