Hi, On Mon, 7 May 2007, Aaron Gray wrote: > > > An .sh to c converter would be the best solution. I will be looking > > > into how hard this would be to do. > > > > NACK. > > > > A stupid .sh to c converter will almost certainly result in slow and > > hard-to-debug code. > > I had presumed you do not have to really look at the code if the > tanslator is sound. IMHO no automatic shell->C converter can be sound. Besides, you are missing that we are dealing with the opposite of POSIX here. After all, your target platform is Windows, right? That makes a sensible sh->C converter all the more difficult. > > If you had bothered to check, you'd know that there are ongoing > > efforts to do the ports properly. > > This is good. So the shell code is being migrated to C ? > > Could you give me a link or refernce please ? You can see a lot in Git's history itself: git log --grep="[Mmake].*builtin" --no-merges builtin.h The Google Summer of Code projects' home page is http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/SoC2007Projects The ongoing progress for this particular project can be seen here: http://repo.or.cz/w/git/builtin-gsoc.git Hth, Dscho - 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