From: Shawn O. Pearce Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 03:18:38 GMT Subject: Re: Windows support Message-ID: <20070726031838.GO32566@spearce.org> In-Reply-To: <7vps2fc196.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Junio C Hamano wrote: > "Dmitry Kakurin" writes: > > > On 7/25/07, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy 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. -- Shawn.