Re: VCS comparison table
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Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
- Date
- Oct 18, 2006, 23:38 UTC
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- <Pine.LNX.4.63.0610190134040.14200@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
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- <20061018213703.GE19194@spearce.org>
Hi,
On Wed, 18 Oct 2006, Shawn Pearce wrote:
> Today Git doesn't run natively on Windows.
As I mentioned some time ago, I started a branch on MinGW. It works quite well for the moment, but it lacks fork() emulation, and glob() emulation. And I lack the time to continue working on it.
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> Today Git is typically extended (at least initially in prototyping > mode) through Perl, Python, TCL or Bourne shell scripts. Although > the first three are available natively on Windows the last requires > Cygwin... and we've had some issues with ActiveState Perl on Windows > in the past too.
Those are not the only problems with scripting. Scripting is fine for prototyping, but _anything_ remotely serious should be implemented using a portable (!) and safe (!) API.
Ciao, Dscho