Re: MinGW port - initial work uploaded
- From
Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
- Date
- Jan 23, 2007, 16:37 UTC
- Message-ID
- <Pine.LNX.4.63.0701231732120.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
- In-Reply-To
- <200701231624.41716.andyparkins@gmail.com>
Hi,
On Tue, 23 Jan 2007, Andy Parkins wrote:
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> On Tuesday 2007 January 23 15:20, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > > MinGW and cygwin differ in one very important point: cygwin needs an extra > > dll, MinGW does not. > > > > However, the development environment is still console-based, with a bash > > so you can run configure and simple bash scripts. It is definitely more > > catering to Unix types than Windows types. > > > > So yes, there is a bash, and there is a less, and there is perl. > > Those are just tools for MinGW though aren't they? They aren't needed to run > the final executable object? MinGW just spits out a native windows .exe - > i.e. plain windows.
Yes. But it _does_ have a dependency on perl and bash. For example, when you merge git-merge-one-file is spawned -- a bash script.
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> There is no reason to suppose that joe-random-developer will have bash, > less and perl, even if they do have git. Which was kind of the point I > was making - there is no pager to rely on in Windows, so why not just > drop it. Okay, so MinGW comes with some nice UNIXy tools, but MinGW is > the compiler, not the environment.
You reminded me that I was not precise enough: MSYS provides the UNIXy tools, and the compiler, MinGW is just the headers and import libraries.
And while we already depend on bash and friends -- which we put into GIT_EXEC_PATH -- we can ship more: "less".
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> Am I still misunderstanding? I'm looking out for the time when > > C:\SomePath> git commit -a > > will work (I know - it's a long way off yet).
You need an editor, that is for sure, but it is not _that_ far off. Thanks to Johannes Sixt, committing works already (if you don't encounter the same problem starting vi as I do).
Ciao, Dscho