From: Shawn Pearce Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2006 04:44:04 GMT Subject: Re: Importing Mozilla CVS into git Message-ID: <20060602044404.GB5429@spearce.org> In-Reply-To: <1149223164.2443.33.camel@dv> Pavel Roskin wrote: > On Fri, 2006-06-02 at 00:11 -0400, Shawn Pearce wrote: > > > GIT today requires not only a decent UNIX shell but also, GNU tools, > > Perl and Python. Porting to Solaris has recently had some more > > effort put into it to remove some of the GNU tool dependencies but > > perhaps one of the most important features (git-merge-recursive) > > is a Python script. > > The great thing about git is that it's modular. A single utility can be > replaced and retested in the same environment, without having to rewrite > the rest of the scripts. A dedicated programmer with good C and Python > skills could rewrite git-merge-recursive.py in C in 2 days, I believe. > Add a few days of bug fixing, of course. Heh. Funny you should mention that. I was just thinking a few minutes ago about working on that exact change... > Dependency on Cygwin, Perl and Python is too much. Windows is becoming > a legacy system in some circles, and it may run on legacy hardware. Yet > it's irreplaceable as a testing platform for many projects. Its already legacy to me. Heck its 2006 and my work desktop still says something about 2000 when I login. :-) -- Shawn.