Re: MinGW binary installer available - Han-Wen Nienhuys

From: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@xs4all.nl>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: MinGW binary installer available
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2007 16:08:04 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45C9EB54.3040406@xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0702071552470.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

Johannes Schindelin escreveu:
>> I don't actually have a windows copy, so it's basically untested.
>> However, I did succeed in running rev-list in wine.
> 
> I played a little with it. IMHO it makes no sense to use it without a 
> bash, and without less. For example,
> 
> 	$ git init
> 	$ git add git.exe
> 	$ git status
> 	$ git commit -a -m initial
> 	$ git show HEAD
> 
> do not produce any output when issued in cmd.
> 
> Also, many scripts rely on bash and/or perl, so you'd have to include 
> them, too.

Indeed: for now, this is intended for people clueful enough to install
bash and perl on their own.  Adding bash itself should be easy, but
I have no idea how to make cmd open the scripts with bash automatically.

The thought of x-compiling perl makes me shudder. 

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 Han-Wen Nienhuys - hanwen@xs4all.nl - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen