Re: Windows support

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jul 26, 2007, 14:37 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0707261534550.14781@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <fcaeb9bf0707260537y4233abaamadf4cb6190ea0eeb@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Thu, 26 Jul 2007, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote:

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> On 7/26/07, Christian MICHON <christian.michon@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 7/26/07, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > microperl [1] maybe? I haven't tried it yet.
> > >
> > 
> > it won't work. I tried that few months back.
> > 
> > plus the fact you'll still need perl modules.
> > 
> > I just had a look at your gitbox gitweb. Did you really manage
> > to get busybox-1.6.1 to work with mingw ?
> 
> Most of tools (that are included) work fine. Ash almost works. It can 
> run git status, git commit, git clone.. and most of test cases. There 
> are still some missing pieces and bugs to hunt down though.

Thank you for working on this!

However, I am not completely convinced that having a builtin shell is all that useful. I for one would like to have MinGW busybox _separate_ from git...

Yes, you could not use the nice "ln -s busybox ash" idiom, since Windows lacks symlinks, but you could still say "busybox ash" with a relatively small, single executable.

Ciao, Dscho