From: Robin Rosenberg Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 09:11:53 GMT Subject: Re: Windows support Message-ID: <200707261111.54439.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com> In-Reply-To: torsdag 26 juli 2007 skrev Johannes Schindelin: > Hi, > > On Wed, 25 Jul 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > > If that is the case, "Git for Windows" probably should package MSYS as > > part of it, I would think, to match the expectation of the users there. > > I know two Johannes'es and Han-Wen spent quite a lot of effort on > > Windows port and packaging, but perhaps that little (well, I should not > > be judging if that is a little or huge, as I do not do Windows) > > finishing touch would make Windows users much happier? > > Windows users are only happy when they can bug developers. > > Seriously again, the biggest problem with Han-Wen's installer was that it > insists on cross-compiling _all_ the packages. This makes it easy for > Han-Wen to upgrade packages and compile the thing on Linux in one go. > However, it never worked with bash, and I could not fix it: I can read > Python, but not _that_ Python. Will windows developers need to get Linux just in order to do a two line fix, or will the build process work on Windows too (provided the developer gets a number of extra packages). -- robin