On Mar 31, 2009, at 2:32 PM, Jay Soffian wrote:
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 3:26 PM, Joshua Juran <jjuran@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Hello,
I'm porting Git to Lamp (Lamp ain't Mac POSIX), a Unix-like
environment
which runs in classic Mac OS, much like Cygwin.
Call it morbid curiosity, but, why? (If I had to guess, I'd assume a
George Mallory answer.)
Well, there's a degree of that.
Even more succinctly, I could add "inertia". I started writing a
replacement for Apple's MPW (one that would actually be useful for
real work) over ten years ago, and never reached a point where I was
ready to quit, even after switching to OS X.
Admittedly, there's an element of retro-programming. I want to see
how far I can go with this. (One of my major hurdles will be git's
use of fork().)
But there's also a sense of awe and wonder in knowing that I'm (most
probably) the only person in the world working on such a project.
Finally, I've begun using it as a research platform. With
inspiration from Plan 9, I'm mapping the GUI into the filesystem, so
you can write an application as a collection of shell scripts.
Josh
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