From: Dmitry Kakurin <dmitry.kakurin@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 02:56:02 GMT
Subject: Re: Windows support
Message-ID: <a1bbc6950707251956h3db847c9v8db438f4c665b2cf@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <46A73015.7020306@midwinter.com>

On 7/25/07, Steven Grimm <koreth@midwinter.com> wrote:
> > How serious are you guys about Windows support?
> Much (nearly all?) of the core git team never touches Windows, so they
> both have no selfish motivation to get it working well and no way to
> test their changes even if they decide to take it up for the greater good.

This actually answers my question (if it's true).
If core team is not interested in supporting Windows then I cannot
trust this system with my source code :-(.

My concerns are (mostly):
* lack of (or insufficient) testing for Windows platform
* possibly lower code quality of Windows port, since core devs don't
touch it and don't care
* possible troubles with support if issues arise
* Windows port could become abandoned if those few brave people, who
work on it right now will leave

In short, all kinds of issues associated with software not being a
first class citizen :-).

- Dmitry