From: dhruva Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2008 12:12:26 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Windows: git-shell can be compiled again Message-ID: <117629.48595.qm@web95011.mail.in2.yahoo.com> Hi, ----- Original Message ---- > From: Johannes Sixt > In order of increasing difficulty: > > - Run the tests on different platforms and servicepack levels. I have no access to multiple boxes but when more people start using git locally, I will try that. > - Find a way to build perl scripts that is acceptable for upstream git.git > and that also works on MSYS/MinGW. Currently we still modify the build > procedure, and the results do not work during 'make test'. Could you please elaborate on the above. Do you mean, rewrite some perl scripts or something else? > - Give some love to git-svn.perl. It will be removed from msysgit's > 1.6.0.x release because it raises expectations that cannot be fulfilled. Since I do not work on SVN, that would be tough in the present state for me. SVN does not even ship their perl bindings for perl 5.10 and I just could not build it from source. I was considering hacking 'svk' to bring back p4 support (which has been dropped in its current avatar). > Please dig the list archive: http://groups.google.com/group/msysgit I will look into it. > I don't think a lot can be done performance-wise unless you want to help > port scripts to C. No promises here as I do not know the complexity of perl scripts. -dhruva Get an email ID as yourname@ymail.com or yourname@rocketmail.com. Click here http://in.promos.yahoo.com/address