Re: [Administrivia] On ruby and contrib/

From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: Jun 7, 2013, 19:14 UTC
Message-ID: <CAMP44s3xbvaftqbWA97S=OEFguCbRdA45ryEXECnL7yDf+L0Uw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.1306070518510.28957@s15462909.onlinehome-server.info>

On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 10:25 PM, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:

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> On Fri, 7 Jun 2013, Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:
>
>> Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>> > My initial reaction, too. It was hard enough to get Perl included with Git
>> > for Windows (because of that pesky Subversion dependency).
>>
>> Nevertheless, we had to do it, and we did it.
>
> That is not quite correct. *I* did it. Not *we*. And I will not do it
> again.

That's fine, I can do it. I bet it will be easy.

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.

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>> Rewriting everything in C?  Is anyone bored enough to pick up this task?
>> Bourne shell is a great language for prototyping; git-rebase.sh (and
>> friends), git-stash.sh, git-pull.sh are doing just fine.  Sure, it makes
>> sense to do heavy-lifting in C, and this is happening as it has always
>> been happening (remember git-commit.sh?).  If you followed the list
>> emails, you'd know that Felipe is looking into delegating large portions
>> of the work done by git-rebase.sh to sequencer.c.
>
> As you know, there are very good reasons why I do not follow those mails.

To the detriment on the project.

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Felipe Contreras