From: Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@googlemail.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:51:22 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] Enable compilation by Makefile for the MSVC toolchain
Message-ID: <40aa078e0908190751g2eb7197cp661f256eb7ff568d@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4A8BFD75.8000706@storm-olsen.com>


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?

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