Re: GIT vs Other: Need argument
- From
Marcin Kasperski <marcin.kasperski@softax.pl>
- Date
- Apr 19, 2007, 12:37 UTC
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- <1176986247.30690.37.camel@cauchy.softax.local>
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(I am not trying to make flame-war, so I restrict to
> > He he, I even downloaded minGW version, just to find that git-pull is > > bash script... > > So what? Do you think a Python program is a native Windows application?
Who cares... Mercurial binary build distributes hg as .exe (made by py2exe or some other converter). The net point is that when I type 'hg' in windows console, I get running mercurial. When I type 'git-pull' I get error.
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> > That's double edged sword. The more useful shell scripts, the more > > unportable tool. > > Wrong. > > Wrong, wrong, wrong. Shell runs on more machines than Python, for example. > And if you do not use things like bash arrays, scripts are _perfectly_ > portable.
Hmm. At the moment I am using more or less frequently: Debian Linux, Tru64 Unix, OpenVMS, Windows XP. Python works well on all of those. Shell scripts work on the first one and partially on the second one.
(yesss, I tried using Cygwin, this is NOT the way to go)