Re: Windows support

From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Jul 26, 2007, 03:18 UTC
Message-ID: <20070726031838.GO32566@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vps2fc196.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

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> "Dmitry Kakurin" <dmitry.kakurin@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > On 7/25/07, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> What features is mingw port missing?
> > Well, 'git commit' from a regular cmd prompt does not work.
> > IMHO, That's a pretty serious omission  :-).
> 
> I was under the impression that is only because you do not have
> MSYS installed.  Doesn't Windows people have automated way to
> pull and install other packages on the dependency?

Package management? On Windows? Surely you aren't talking about that silly "Add/Remove Programs" control panel that just destroys your machine.

I do know the best way to uninstall dependencies on Windows is to boot a live Linux CD and `mkfs /dev/hda1`. But as far as installing things go you pray that your vendor has packaged everything you need in their shiny click-through installer thing, and if they haven't, you cry wolf and switch to another vendor.

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Shawn.