From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jakub Narebski Subject: Re: Windows support Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 23:39:35 +0200 Organization: At home Message-ID: References: <7vps2fc196.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <20070726031838.GO32566@spearce.org> <7v6447bxc1.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <46A8378A.6050201@xs4all.nl> <20070726071316.GE18114@spearce.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Jul 26 23:39:51 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 1IEB3n-0002Va-Dr for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 23:39:51 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1765072AbXGZVjs (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jul 2007 17:39:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1764931AbXGZVjs (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jul 2007 17:39:48 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:51199 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1763658AbXGZVjr (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jul 2007 17:39:47 -0400 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1IEB3e-0005aY-0L for git@vger.kernel.org; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 23:39:42 +0200 Received: from host-89-229-8-65.torun.mm.pl ([89.229.8.65]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 23:39:41 +0200 Received: from jnareb by host-89-229-8-65.torun.mm.pl with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 23:39:41 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: host-89-229-8-65.torun.mm.pl Mail-Copies-To: Jakub Narebski User-Agent: KNode/0.10.2 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: > 2007/7/26, Shawn O. Pearce : >> Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: >>> I would suggest to making a clear >>> decision of what are recommended languages, and move everything else >>> to contrib/ .. Currently, C and bash seem the most reasonable choice, >>> but you could decide for perl, but then the consequence should be that >>> the bash scripts are translated into perl. Having both bash and perl >>> serves no purpose, and will lead to duplication of library code to >>> interact with the git binary. >> >> Sure, but there's some stuff that shell is good at, and other stuff >> that Perl is good at. Forcing everything into one mold while we >> prototype new features is really limiting. > > I'm not contradicting that, but merely suggesting that they go into > contrib/ and are not recommended as standard git commands, and don't > need to be packaged for windows. They can be not packaged for windows, but for example git-send-email (which is written in Perl) is IMHO important enough to be in git proper and not delegated to contrib/; but it is packaged in separate RPM, git-email. Same with git-svn package... -- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland ShadeHawk on #git