From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy" Subject: Re: Windows support Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 15:43:15 -0400 Message-ID: References: <46A8378A.6050201@xs4all.nl> <46d6db660707260521u15c2bd85j806d48e0f51a3b9@mail.gmail.com> <46A8D2BE.7070309@trolltech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, "Johannes Schindelin" To: "Marius Storm-Olsen" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Jul 26 21:43:33 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 1IE9FD-0004zF-QG for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 21:43:32 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S935116AbXGZTnU (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jul 2007 15:43:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S935173AbXGZTnT (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jul 2007 15:43:19 -0400 Received: from an-out-0708.google.com ([209.85.132.244]:39708 "EHLO an-out-0708.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S935116AbXGZTnS (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jul 2007 15:43:18 -0400 Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id d31so125002and for ; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 12:43:16 -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=ehuSoyyzz+dmlXEkQpFCgiLJBCXBuaHDHfqHKGuSAJatJmvffjomRNl7xf1MD+ruk5lB8lrcU67oXEyyNUvGS7A3JcDhdk3Cz9y4IRvHEfENasaPITaciR62bxlVeI3BpvApfqFSIdwQ7+YorZor/M+qMCjMCzhHZhiuwn80TSc= 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=i9zhA7V+8jOgpdWY5I6mmyOiqtaT8VITnVy73cPOMkQ/fAqxWOReM1wlNhRepBQDlOUhzYlKOvBYld2tFctKADLAHjzLtTCz/uaZONa8BAZfijIENIec/g9WBkb+vo5Qju3a7GIgQveggrq+TNHBoYBsiU4bCOcx0/bgTRvQypM= Received: by 10.100.197.15 with SMTP id u15mr1894984anf.1185478996000; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 12:43:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.100.127.17 with HTTP; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 12:43:15 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <46A8D2BE.7070309@trolltech.com> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 7/26/07, Marius Storm-Olsen wrote: > Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote: > > On 7/26/07, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > >> Thank you for working on this! > >> > >> However, I am not completely convinced that having a builtin shell is all > >> that useful. I for one would like to have MinGW busybox _separate_ from > >> git... > > > > I make MinGW busybox part of git for some reasons: > > > > - Making a full MinGW busybox would take lots of time. I don't need > > busybox for Windows. What I need is a shell and enough POSIX utilities > > to run git shell scripts without any dependencies. Windows users > > (including myself when I have to use Windows) hate dependencies. > > - I don't want MinGW busybox to be used outside of git (if it is > > installed separated from git), there are cygwin and msys already. I > > don't want to compete them. And I don't like conflicts (not sure > > though) because you have multiple UNIX emulations on the same system. > (..snip..) > > Hi Duy, > > *drool* > This was an extremely good idea! Thank you so much for working on it! > I'll be sure to play around with it, and see if there's any way I can > help out. Guess I finally have to get that MinGW compile environment set > up then :-) > > Btw, are you compiling with MinGW on Windows, or cross-compiling on Linux? I cross-compile all the time (and test it on Windows when I have one, on the buggy Wine when not). I'd absolutely appreciate bug reports regarding building it on Windows ;-) -- Duy