From: Johannes Schindelin Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 23:38:45 GMT Subject: Re: VCS comparison table Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <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. > 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