On 16 October 2007 16:56, David Brown wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 02:25:21AM -0400, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
>> On the other hand, what packages have 100K files? If there's only one
>> -- the Linux kernel -- then I think this kind of performance is for
>> all practical purposes unimportant on Windows, because while it is
>> reasonable to assume that someone would like to use git on Windows,
>> assuming that someone will develop the Linux kernel on Windows is --
>> how should I put it -- _really_ far-fetched ;-)
>
> Oh, I wish others could think this clearly. Quoting a serious line off of
> a task list at an unnamed company:
>
> - Make Linux kernel compile under windows.
>
> I don't think it will move past just being a wish list item, but there seem
> to be people that think it should be done.
>
> Admittedly, they don't want developers doing it on windows, but want to
> integrate kernel building into a windows-heavy build and release process.
Do that kind of thing here all the time, hence my previous post. Apart from
the netfilter stuff with the filenames-that-match-in-all-but-case, no real
problems, took me a couple of hours one afternoon.
Cygwin is a good match for linux dev work.
cheers,
DaveK
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