Re: Potential GSoC13 projects (Re: Google Summer of Code 2013 (GSoC13))
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Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
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- Feb 19, 2013, 01:23 UTC
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On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 4:11 AM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote: >> Jonathan Nieder wrote: > >>> - cross-compilable git >> >> Why, exactly? Git for embedded devices? > > My personal motivation would be building Git for Windows while > spending as little time on Windows as possible. People deploying git > to 32-bit x86, 64-bit x86, and ARM (think "ARM laptops") might also > find it handy.
I did something like that long ago (for cross compiling Windows). Although I eventually gave up on the Windows front as I was too lazy to test on Windows :) (and Wine by that time was not good enough) I think some of my patches are in the archive. Will dig them up.
-- Duy