From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 22:40:15 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] use only the PATH for exec'ing git commands
Message-ID: <20071022224015.GG23714@steel.home>
In-Reply-To: <1193091122.v2.fusewebmail-240137@f>

Scott R Parish, Tue, Oct 23, 2007 00:12:02 +0200:
> > Alex Riesen, Mon, Oct 22, 2007 12:01
> > Scott R Parish, Mon, Oct 22, 2007 19:01:48 +0200:
> > > +                strbuf_addch(out, ':');
> >
> > Shouldn't it break MingW32 native port?
> 
> What can i do here to better accommodate MingW32? You're
> right, just because the original code did it this way
> isn't a good excuse for me not to do it better.

someone here mentioned "higher abstractions". Maybe he meant moving
the routines operating on path names and path lists out of the generic
code into platform specific (like compat/). Maybe he was even going to
do that himself, but I could be mistaken