From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2013 19:41:37 GMT
Subject: Re: [Administrivia] On ruby and contrib/
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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