Re: MinGW binary installer available

From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Feb 8, 2007, 21:22 UTC
Message-ID: <20070208212259.GA1091@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0702082216000.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:

> Frankly, I'd rather stay away from such hackeries. For now, we can ship 
> bash, perl and Tcl/Tk with Git, as well as git-gui, can't we? After all, 
> Windows users are used to bloatware. Then, we just hide the command line 
> from them!

I agree.

I'm happy to make changes in git-gui to help users who are trying to use Git without Cygwin, and are on Windows. Patches would be even more welcome of course. ;-)

Most of git-gui tries to stay away from shell scripts, partly for this reason, and partly because its Porcelain and shouldn't depend on the stock Porcelain-ish that comes with Git. Oh, and shell scripts on Cygwin aren't speed-demons. :-)

-- 
Shawn.