From: Jakub Narebski Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2006 15:58:37 GMT Subject: Re: Importing Mozilla CVS into git Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <9e4733910606070830g24a08771i1a332552a95283d1@mail.gmail.com> Jon Smirl wrote: > On 6/7/06, Igor Bukanov wrote: >> On 6/2/06, Jon Smirl wrote: >>> On 6/2/06, Pavel Roskin wrote: >>>> Dependency on Cygwin, Perl and Python is too much. Windows is becoming >>>> a legacy system in some circles, and it may run on legacy hardware. Yet >>>> it's irreplaceable as a testing platform for many projects. >>> >>> 80% of Mozilla commiters are running Windows. Some are OS bilingual >>> but many are not. >> >> Mozilla build system on Windows requires Cygwin and there are 198 Perl >> files in Firefox tree. So it is only Python that can be problematic. > > Other people have sent me mail saying this may not be as big as > problem as was thought, only documentation people on WIndows may be an > issues. With 1.4.0 there should be tar files of documentation. For now, one can use html and man branches of git.git repository: see the INSTALL file and/or http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitDocumentation -- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland