From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:13:26 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 11/12] Basic build infrastructure for Python scripts
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0911071311350.4985@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <fabb9a1e0911061525n7c7ad7dl2d97d979a25335bf@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Sat, 7 Nov 2009, Sverre Rabbelier wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 00:23, Andrzej K. Haczewski <ahaczewski@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > I'm asking because bash+perl is a huge stopper for Windows platform, 
> > which requires basic unix environment to work, while python support 
> > for Windows is excellent and most of Windows developers already use 
> > python.
> 
> I don't know what the stance is on this though, currently it is intended 
> only for the remote helpers I think.

Everybody who knows only a little bit about the history of msysGit knows 
that Perl/Bash support was easy while Python seems to be impossible.  
Before anybody says "but Python is Open Source, and available for 
Windows": I will only listen when you have a script that builds Python 
inside msysGit, not requiring a proprietary compiler nor Linux for a 
cross-build.

Hth,
Dscho