Re: [PATCH 2/2] mingw: remove msysGit/MSYS1 support
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
- Date
- Jan 9, 2023, 08:52 UTC
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Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
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> It would be good to avoid over-indexing on individual person's > preferences. While it seems to be quite common in the Git project, it is > obvious how this harms the Git project more than e.g. focusing on users' > needs would. > > A more productive line of thought would therefore be: > > MSys has long fallen behind MSYS2 in features like Unicode or > x86_64 support or even security bug fixes, and is therefore no > longer used by anyone in the Git developer community. The Git for > Windows project itself started switching from MSys to MSYS2 early > in 2015, i.e. about eight years ago. Let's drop supporting MSys as > a development platform.
Nicely written.
Will expect a reroll with Acked-by: added with updated description, hopefully by the end of the week when I'll come back online?
Thanks.