Hi, On Sat, 1 Nov 2008, Alex Riesen wrote: > Johannes Schindelin, Fri, Oct 31, 2008 23:14:59 +0100: > > > On Fri, 31 Oct 2008, Alex Riesen wrote: > > > > > ActiveState Perl on Windows is portable? To another windows, maybe. > > > > /me wonders why you could not use the Perl that ships with Git for > > Windows, at least for the purposes of Git. > > Corporate policy and very-very incompetent IT service. Besides being > illegal to install actually usable software, there are some of internal > programs which are quite sensitive to perl (any other perl) appearing > anywhere on disk, not to mention PATH (the build system, for one). Same > for cygwin revisions. > > I tried using other perl and more modern cygwin, and it can be made to > work, but it is cumbersome and boring. And one more thing to reinstall > after IT wipes your computer because you've got a new disk or they > decided you need winxp instead of w2k, or something else... So I'm just > trying reduce effort I put into what I'm not supposed to do at work > anyway. Well, if you install Git for Windows (as opposed to cygwin), it is minimum hassle, and Perl is delivered right with it. Ciao, Dscho P.S.: some guys at the GSoC mentor summit convinced me in at least trying to fix _their_ problems on msysGit, so chances are good I'll fix issues you would encounter in the same run. -- 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
