From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2457EC5479D for ; Mon, 9 Jan 2023 09:01:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S233885AbjAIJBv (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jan 2023 04:01:51 -0500 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:39386 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S236914AbjAIJAx (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jan 2023 04:00:53 -0500 Received: from mail-pj1-x102b.google.com (mail-pj1-x102b.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4864:20::102b]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2004E183BB for ; Mon, 9 Jan 2023 00:52:39 -0800 (PST) Received: by mail-pj1-x102b.google.com with SMTP id l1-20020a17090a384100b00226f05b9595so6660753pjf.0 for ; Mon, 09 Jan 2023 00:52:39 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20210112; h=mime-version:user-agent:message-id:in-reply-to:date:references :subject:cc:to:from:sender:from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id :reply-to; bh=q6xJgTOaJ8LzAHT3JyBjyPhz/w6cxLZCaeuA8uQcO2g=; b=HfT9FRuu0pY2U4aUdp9Z41ifH6kZjCEzbfa2RccrSBiDKYJqsJ5XkrU6yLp5hutFbb /2yqVUUnQPLefTaGt0M96uOqf0y2U7AEYAtnalnOx0Pj+UjhexTPggiBXcyfo1Rkpgi0 ExnbCD/Oqu/95zwRWLGXwwwrTZz1Glw8Q8sPPjNkUv5NeYrFMRJUnqWtJHRv6qZZ54dv 7pqd31WFZuhIwLmN0Y6FK80uUeymlv1HxaV+PA098ibQsOGNJsuW4aMmvmDKkKtbjk9H lGufLbTJvLEuNzzFKXXL19/L+Wu4AT0Js88Tu8WIBSG7pgcHos3yttDV7U9imnYtvz1S y8Sw== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20210112; h=mime-version:user-agent:message-id:in-reply-to:date:references :subject:cc:to:from:sender:x-gm-message-state:from:to:cc:subject :date:message-id:reply-to; bh=q6xJgTOaJ8LzAHT3JyBjyPhz/w6cxLZCaeuA8uQcO2g=; b=UK11Y6GVgu7pj45voFfT4yfgsFeEaxOerthe3Bxt6bl8RouEa55MyJu1El3ob5gRHd 6Q1b0BzX3Ap722eV/6QxzekoSmtNiWYYH0FmHaYPfY3I5scSyPRXJZt/1D/MDAAia2UR Grb6UfMTZxFCOPnMKKNxfhmAdoyv7f9mXuBmnqX5Yg6TWMxH6CV7okT3DmtgGQT5c0VF w0luPxRu/yYbUugqzED3OtltO5D3pF6sIOMiYJ7b0jPjR5VpQrXsAv9YfT3mUleo5Erb F9khQRZIvd7HuxrE/5iLri78SRgb1sHunUwbu09T831jlZ+iwlwvOi3y4CR22O6JvPBb Dfnw== X-Gm-Message-State: AFqh2koRXJo9l8dRGjb7U7tvxz3laID0wCsMpuAy6atE1/oUnqK9ZvnG wFsgsepFqVX/G5VgHd4k92A= X-Google-Smtp-Source: AMrXdXurmbReUsGdZmnumJTrFJzH4dvbBpTmevj5mF1+94LhuxtjOUvPWWQjrjl/IO1uUzIg0rpPTg== X-Received: by 2002:a17:90b:3649:b0:227:e22:4a85 with SMTP id nh9-20020a17090b364900b002270e224a85mr3642388pjb.9.1673254358540; Mon, 09 Jan 2023 00:52:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (33.5.83.34.bc.googleusercontent.com. [34.83.5.33]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id mm10-20020a17090b358a00b00226daa7b377sm5549471pjb.52.2023.01.09.00.52.38 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Mon, 09 Jan 2023 00:52:38 -0800 (PST) Sender: Junio C Hamano From: Junio C Hamano To: Johannes Schindelin Cc: Harshil-Jani via GitGitGadget , git@vger.kernel.org, Harshil Jani , Johannes Sixt , Jeff Hostetler Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] mingw: remove msysGit/MSYS1 support References: <4a2ce224-85e4-5903-44bc-664aa5a59f91@gmx.de> Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2023 17:52:37 +0900 In-Reply-To: <4a2ce224-85e4-5903-44bc-664aa5a59f91@gmx.de> (Johannes Schindelin's message of "Mon, 9 Jan 2023 08:48:05 +0100 (CET)") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Johannes Schindelin writes: > It would be good to avoid over-indexing on individual person's > preferences. While it seems to be quite common in the Git project, it is > obvious how this harms the Git project more than e.g. focusing on users' > needs would. > > A more productive line of thought would therefore be: > > MSys has long fallen behind MSYS2 in features like Unicode or > x86_64 support or even security bug fixes, and is therefore no > longer used by anyone in the Git developer community. The Git for > Windows project itself started switching from MSys to MSYS2 early > in 2015, i.e. about eight years ago. Let's drop supporting MSys as > a development platform. Nicely written. Will expect a reroll with Acked-by: added with updated description, hopefully by the end of the week when I'll come back online? Thanks.