Re: [PATCH 22/40] Windows: Implement asynchronous functions as threads.

Hi,

On Thu, 28 Feb 2008, Paul Franz wrote:

Possible?  Yes.

Sensible? That's another issue. For one, we already rely on a pretty good POSIX shell support. That is not something helped by APR.

So if we already need a POSIX shell, we might just as well rely on a (kind of) POSIX environment.

Besides, I cannot say that I found compiling APR in msysGit _easy_.

So if there are as many disadvantages as I suspect, and as few advantages, as I suspect, too, I think it would be a waste of time to bother to port Git to APR.

Besides, I think there are -- again, as always when things seem to be only fun -- legal issues. I do not know the details, but there are people who say that APL is incompatible with GPL (v2).

Not that I care too much about those bastards who devised licenses just to make my life miserable. But them lawyer types have ways to _make_ my life miserable. So I avoid those kind of problems. I guess you could call this "collateral legal damage".

Ciao, Dscho