Re: [PATCH 4/4] Add a basic test case for git send-email, and fix some real bugs discovered.

From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: May 30, 2006, 16:00 UTC
Message-ID: <81b0412b0605300900l7530792dqcea6d812602b9176@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20060530152103.GB8931@trixie.casa.cgf.cx>

On 5/30/06, Christopher Faylor <me@cgf.cx> wrote:

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> >froze afterwards anyway, as "wc" or "perl" did. Besides, it the
> >command often freezes that poor imitation of xterm windows has.
>
> I assume that "the poor imitation of xterm" is referring to cygwin's
> xterm here.  It's really too bad that you can't get into the mindset of
> reporting problems to the cygwin mailing list when you notice them.

Actually, I was referring to windows console. And no, I don't think you could do something about it.

But honestly, I don't think it's worth supporting windows in general and cygwin in particular. And before anyone (again) asks why am _I_ doing it: I'd have to do my job with Perforce otherwise (as if windows wasn't bad enough...)

> I can't comment on the proposed patch since, AFAIK, using cat, wc, and
> (cygwin's) perl should all work just fine but I don't think it is ever
> correct to complain about a platform in released software.

If you actually read the message, you'd probably notice ActiveState Perl.

I have no idea why have you taken my post as an attempt to insult cygwin; IF I had that in mind I'd dedicate a whole long post just to that.