git/list[1] front-page[2] threads[3] people[4] search[5] about
 

Re: Can git choose perl at runtime?

From
brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Date
Dec 24, 2018, 02:20 UTC
Message-ID
<20181224022042.GE26554@genre.crustytoothpaste.net>
In-Reply-To
<87wonzes23.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com>
On Mon, Dec 24, 2018 at 12:34:12AM +0100, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
Show 5 quoted lines
> Yeah, but my reading (which may be wrong) of John Passaro's E-Mail
> upthread
> (<CAJdN7Kioa22xrDP2ssZXmBbu7KDkcr2MQCUDW=Tzm5ydzeChBQ@mail.gmail.com>)
> is that for some users this is the path of least resistance to getting
> git-send-email et al working for whatever reason.

I think we should just ask Homebrew to ship a functional, complete Git. If they need to use the Homebrew Perl to install modules instead of the system Perl, then they should do that. It sounds like we're engineering a feature that lets users shoot themselves in the foot to work around an easily fixable distributor issue.

I'm sympathetic to the difficult job of distributors, but Git is not an unreasonable upstream, and I don't think it's unfair to ask Homebrew to solve this problem in their distribution.

I've commented on the issue on their GitHub repository, asking them to address this problem.

-- 
brian m. carlson: Houston, Texas, US
OpenPGP: https://keybase.io/bk2204
Previous: Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonNext: John Passaro
Message 10 of 11 in “Can git choose perl at runtime?”
  1. John PassaroDec 19, 2018
  2. Jonathan NiederDec 19, 2018
  3. Carlo ArenasDec 19, 2018
  4. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonDec 19, 2018
  5. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonDec 19, 2018
  6. brian m. carlsonDec 21, 2018
  7. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonDec 23, 2018
  8. brian m. carlsonDec 23, 2018
  9. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonDec 23, 2018
  10. brian m. carlsonDec 24, 2018
  11. John PassaroDec 28, 2018

Read the whole thread, see it on lore, or plain text.

$ cat FOOTERMessages come from the public archive at lore.kernel.org/git, fetched every hour. The front page is chosen and written each morning by an AI editor and can be wrong; the threads themselves are the record. About and API. For agents: an MCP server at https://gitlist.dev/mcp, and any thread, story or person page as Markdown by adding .md to its URL (or sending Accept: text/markdown). Details in /llms.txt.