2019-08-04(Sun) 9:38 brian m. carlson <sandals@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > On 2019-08-03 at 23:52:08, KADOTA, Kyohei via GitGitGadget wrote: > > I ported git, and git subcommands only written in C to Plan 9. This pull > > request contains patches for existing codes, and new files to build git in > > Plan 9. > > > > All build options such as NO_PERL are not supported yet, and also some git > > subcommands written not in C is not available yet. But git can synchronize > > to remote repository with git pull and git push via HTTPS. > > > > This pull request don't contain a part of Git toolchain for example > > git-credential-store, etc. So I'm going to port other parts of Git toolchain > > too in the future. > > This series seems to build a whole new build system that uses Plan 9 > tools. Typically the way ports to non-POSIX platforms (such as Windows) > have been handled is that the Unix tools, including GNU make, have been > ported to those platforms, and the POSIX (or POSIX-ish) environment used > there. > > I'm concerned that by introducing a whole bunch of new, Plan 9-specific > build code, we're going to have it fall behind with features or bug > fixes, because none of the main developers test on Plan 9, and most > contributors will not have the Plan 9 skills or systems to maintain the > code. > > In addition, the editor used by git commit and other commands invokes > "sh", but you've set this to "rc". That's completely different from the > way that all other environments work, and it means that Git on Plan 9 > operates in a totally different, incompatible way there. We also use a > POSIX shell for the testsuite, and we rely on it quite heavily. rc is > not going to cut it there. > > Plan 9 has a POSIX environment, and I think it might be a better idea to > require that as a condition for building and running Git. It will likely > be a lot easier, at least. > -- > brian m. carlson: Houston, Texas, US > OpenPGP: https://keybase.io/bk2204 I think it is possible to replace rc with ape/sh, ape/sh is POSIX shell in Plan 9. However Plan 9 don't have recent versions of Unix tools, such as gcc, g++, autotools, gmake or perl, so it is VERY hard to use Makefile instead of mkfile.
