Re: Status of Mac OS/X ports of git and cogito?

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sep 11, 2005, 10:07 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0509111159190.32555@wgmdd8.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <7vd5o03uof.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Hi,

On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Are Darwin folks on the list happy with the current codebase, or
> have you given up because it is too GNU/Linux specific?

While I'm not exactly Darwin folk, I use git on Mac OS X 10.2.8 (I'm sitting behind a scary firewall, so don't even think about hacking me).

I have three fixes in my personal tree without which git refuses to compile:

- daemon.c needs a define or typedef for socklen_t.

- mailinfo.c needs to have a simple strcasestr implementation, because 
  10.2.8 (at least in my setup) is lacking it!

- gitk gets very confused about the window layout. My preliminary tests on 
  cygwin showed that this seems to be rather a problem of Tk with rootless 
  Xwin. I worked around it by explicitely stating the dimensions of some 
  canvas windows which would not automatically resize with their contents 
  otherwise.

The only thing I did not "fix" is git-cvsimport not running because of a lacking File/Temp.pm. But then, I run git-cvsimport on a different machine anyway.

I regularly use git on OS X and it works great!

Ciao, Dscho