Re: Git, C89, and older compilers
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- Joshua Juran <jjuran@gmail.com>
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- Mar 31, 2009, 22:22 UTC
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On Mar 31, 2009, at 2:32 PM, Jay Soffian wrote:
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> On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 3:26 PM, Joshua Juran <jjuran@gmail.com> > wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I'm porting Git to Lamp (Lamp ain't Mac POSIX), a Unix-like >> environment >> which runs in classic Mac OS, much like Cygwin. > > Call it morbid curiosity, but, why? (If I had to guess, I'd assume a > George Mallory answer.)
Well, there's a degree of that.
Even more succinctly, I could add "inertia". I started writing a replacement for Apple's MPW (one that would actually be useful for real work) over ten years ago, and never reached a point where I was ready to quit, even after switching to OS X.
Admittedly, there's an element of retro-programming. I want to see how far I can go with this. (One of my major hurdles will be git's use of fork().)
But there's also a sense of awe and wonder in knowing that I'm (most probably) the only person in the world working on such a project.
Finally, I've begun using it as a research platform. With inspiration from Plan 9, I'm mapping the GUI into the filesystem, so you can write an application as a collection of shell scripts.
Josh