From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 01:27:25 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 22/40] Windows: Implement asynchronous functions as threads.
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0802290122110.22527@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <47C6F40A.4010703@comcast.net>

Hi,

On Thu, 28 Feb 2008, Paul Franz wrote:

> Do you think it would be possible to change git to use Apache's apr 
> library?

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