From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sun, 09 Jun 2013 02:59:41 GMT
Subject: Re: [Administrivia] On ruby and contrib/
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.1306090457340.28957@s15462909.onlinehome-server.info>
In-Reply-To: <CALkWK0ntWzJj1AkDzv9VvS+7e3B17HFkZLQhAu-7pQv6M7=dkw@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Ram,

On Sat, 8 Jun 2013, Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:

> Felipe Contreras wrote:
> > While at it, why not re-evaluate the whole msysgit approach? I bet we
> > don't need a whole separate project just to create a Windows
> > installer. I've written Windows installers before, it's very easy to
> > do from Linux.
> 
> Yeah, taking the pain out of msysgit packaging would be a great way to
> counter this new-dependency-fud.  The main problem, as mm pointed out
> is subversion + perlxs.

Yeah, this is the main problem, and you probably will end up with a much
better (Linux-based) solution than the people who contributed to the Git
for Windows project in all those years since August 2007.

Surprise me, with code,
J