On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 10:25 PM, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 7 Jun 2013, Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote: > >> Johannes Schindelin wrote: >> > My initial reaction, too. It was hard enough to get Perl included with Git >> > for Windows (because of that pesky Subversion dependency). >> >> Nevertheless, we had to do it, and we did it. > > That is not quite correct. *I* did it. Not *we*. And I will not do it > again. That's fine, I can do it. I bet it will be easy. 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. >> Rewriting everything in C? Is anyone bored enough to pick up this task? >> Bourne shell is a great language for prototyping; git-rebase.sh (and >> friends), git-stash.sh, git-pull.sh are doing just fine. Sure, it makes >> sense to do heavy-lifting in C, and this is happening as it has always >> been happening (remember git-commit.sh?). If you followed the list >> emails, you'd know that Felipe is looking into delegating large portions >> of the work done by git-rebase.sh to sequencer.c. > > As you know, there are very good reasons why I do not follow those mails. To the detriment on the project. -- Felipe Contreras -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html