Re: [Administrivia] On ruby and contrib/

From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Date: Jun 7, 2013, 19:41 UTC
Message-ID: <CALkWK0ntWzJj1AkDzv9VvS+7e3B17HFkZLQhAu-7pQv6M7=dkw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAMP44s3xbvaftqbWA97S=OEFguCbRdA45ryEXECnL7yDf+L0Uw@mail.gmail.com>

Felipe Contreras wrote:

> While at it, why not re-evaluate the whole msysgit approach? I bet we
> don't need a whole separate project just to create a Windows
> installer. I've written Windows installers before, it's very easy to
> do from Linux.

Yeah, taking the pain out of msysgit packaging would be a great way to counter this new-dependency-fud. The main problem, as mm pointed out is subversion + perlxs [1]. Any idea how to tackle that?

[1]: https://github.com/msysgit/msysgit/wiki/Frequently-Asked-Questions

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