Re: MinGW binary installer available

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Feb 8, 2007, 20:08 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0702082106430.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <87abzoh15n.fsf@peder.flower>

Hi,

On Thu, 8 Feb 2007, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:

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> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> >  http://lilypond.org/git/binaries/mingw/git-1.4.9993-2.mingw.exe
> 
> Yes, much better.  There's still the bash script problem, maybe
> these should be replaced with python?

Hahahaha!

This is not meant as laughing _about_ you... Along with others, I worked very hard to get rid of that naughty dependency to Python.

IMHO the best way for Git is to go builtin. It is the only way to guarantee portability to many, many platforms without a dependency nightmare.

Who knows, maybe Git will run on VMS yet?

Ciao, Dscho