From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2006 22:09:30 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fmt-merge-msg: avoid open "-|" list form for Perl 5.6
Message-ID: <20060302220930.GE6183@steel.home>
In-Reply-To: <20060302165510.GB18929@spearce.org>

Shawn Pearce, Thu, Mar 02, 2006 17:55:10 +0100:
> Maybe I missed this but why are people using the native Windows
> ActiveState Perl with GIT+Cygwin when Cygwin has a Cygwin-ized Perl
> installation available?

because the people _can't_ use cygwin's perl. There are a lot of
reasons mainly: administrative, perl script incompatibilities and
cygwin.dll incompatibilities (if you use perl from cygwin, it'll need
the correct cygwin.dll. And if a build process uses cygwin tools from,
for example, QNX Momentics it often comes to clashes).

> I've been using the Cygwin Perl with GIT without any problems
> whatsoever.  Including the open(I, "-|")... exec(@argv) code that
> doesn't work correctly in ActiveState and started this whole thread.

Unfortunately...