Re: [RFC] Enable compilation by Makefile for the MSVC toolchain
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Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@googlemail.com>
- Date
- Aug 19, 2009, 14:51 UTC
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On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 3:26 PM, Marius Storm-Olsen<marius@storm-olsen.com> wrote:
> They would still require the rest of the msysgit environment to be able to > use the result. Not until we have zero scripts left as git commands can we > ditch the msysgit environment. So yes, even for msvc-built git is msysgit > required. Its just not build with MinGW.
...perhaps support for msvc for a subset of git-core (without all shell scripts, that is) is just the incentive some windows-developers need to start developing c-versions of the lacking functionality? A pure C git-core would IMO be the ideal case. Utilities could still be scripted on top of this through bindings given that the developer have perl installed, no?
-- Erik "kusma" Faye-Lund kusmabite@gmail.com (+47) 986 59 656