On 7/26/07, Marius Storm-Olsen <marius@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote: > On 7/26/07, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> wrote: >> Thank you for working on this! >> >> However, I am not completely convinced that having a builtin shell is all >> that useful. I for one would like to have MinGW busybox _separate_ from >> git... > > I make MinGW busybox part of git for some reasons: > > - Making a full MinGW busybox would take lots of time. I don't need > busybox for Windows. What I need is a shell and enough POSIX utilities > to run git shell scripts without any dependencies. Windows users > (including myself when I have to use Windows) hate dependencies. > - I don't want MinGW busybox to be used outside of git (if it is > installed separated from git), there are cygwin and msys already. I > don't want to compete them. And I don't like conflicts (not sure > though) because you have multiple UNIX emulations on the same system. (..snip..) Hi Duy, *drool* This was an extremely good idea! Thank you so much for working on it! I'll be sure to play around with it, and see if there's any way I can help out. Guess I finally have to get that MinGW compile environment set up then :-) Btw, are you compiling with MinGW on Windows, or cross-compiling on Linux?
I cross-compile all the time (and test it on Windows when I have one, on the buggy Wine when not). I'd absolutely appreciate bug reports regarding building it on Windows ;-) -- Duy - 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
