Re: [Administrivia] On ruby and contrib/

From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Date: Jun 7, 2013, 18:48 UTC
Message-ID: <CALkWK0=mthyNQz9o6vG0b_yEMVL3GsB-dppNt6xgWTdUQQ5Zqw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <vpqip1pzs9d.fsf@anie.imag.fr>

Matthieu Moy wrote:

> Visual Studio now has official Git support from MS (based on libgit2 if
> I understood correctly). That's cool, but not a reason to kill msysgit
> IMHO ;-).

Oh, I'm not interested in killing anything. If people want msysgit, they will work on it: I'm nobody to say otherwise. I was just curious to know why msysgit is suffering from a lack of attention: fewer users?

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> Whether it's based on POSIX is an implementation detail for the user.
> The real question is more command-line Vs GUI than POSIX/Win32. Some
> Linux users like GUI, some windows users use command-line. I tried IDE
> integration with EGIT, and quite frankly I ended-up doing all the Git
> stuff in a terminal next to Eclipse.

I see.  But isn't it possible to implement a CLI in libgit2 too, no?