Re: Feedback on native Win32 git from a Perl perspective

From: Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 23, 2007, 10:48 UTC
Message-ID: <46a038f90707230348x7b107568vb680cb089645cb61@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <46A4337E.2090303@phase-n.com>

On 7/23/07, Adam Kennedy <adam@phase-n.com> wrote:

> The main problem is that on Windows for the most part there is just no
> concept of "first install $something" (be that a run-time, cygwin, or
> whatever).

Agreed. And then you get in trouble if the stuff you are bundling conflicts with software tht the user has already, or installs later...

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> For the Vanilla/Strawberry Perl installers (http://vanillaperl.com/) the
> approach we ended up with to get full toolchain functionality out of the
> box was to bundle a copy of the MinGW packages we needed, as well as
> bundling a copy of dmake.
>
> The approach ActivePerl takes is to not bundle any of these parts,

I was a longtime ActivePerl user. I remember the pain.

>From the page you link, you are shipping Strawberry Perl for the

simple install with all included cases, and vanilla for people who want to package their own perl or get Just Perl.

Sounds like a good plan -- hopefully bundling minGW isn't too hard.