From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fmt-merge-msg: avoid open "-|" list form for Perl 5.6
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 22:43:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060223214353.GC5827@steel.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0602230911410.3771@g5.osdl.org>
Linus Torvalds, Thu, Feb 23, 2006 18:13:43 +0100:
> > Someday we'll have to start dropping features on Windows or restrict them
> > beyond their usefullness.
>
> One thing that would help a bit would be to avoid shell.
>
> There are many portable interpreters out there, and I don't mean perl. And
> writing a small "specialized for git" one isn't even that hard. In fact,
> most of the shell (and bash) hackery we do now would be unnecessary if we
> just made a small "git interpreter" that ran "git scripts".
>
> The fact that it would also help portability is just an added advantage.
>
I actually was dreaming about taking a vacation and rewrite at least
the most important scripts in C, but without cygwin. Implement the
needed subset of POSIX in compat/, workaround fork.
That'd help me to present git to my collegues without requiring them
to install cygwin, perl and python first. It is a real problem to
explain why a new tool is better than the old one if the problem start
right from installation, and it probably wont matter how bad the old
tool is (it is, they know that too, but it has windows, doors and a
mostly running man for busy-waiting cursor).
A gits own interpreter would be more than, of course.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-23 21:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 78+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-20 18:37 Should we support Perl 5.6? Johannes Schindelin
2006-02-20 19:10 ` Eric Wong
2006-02-20 21:01 ` Andreas Ericsson
2006-02-20 21:15 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-02-20 22:05 ` [PATCH] fmt-merge-msg: avoid open "-|" list form for Perl 5.6 Junio C Hamano
2006-02-20 22:12 ` [PATCH] rerere: " Junio C Hamano
2006-02-20 22:12 ` [PATCH] send-email: " Junio C Hamano
2006-02-20 22:12 ` [PATCH] svmimport: " Junio C Hamano
2006-02-20 22:19 ` [PATCH] cvsimport: " Junio C Hamano
2006-02-21 17:30 ` [PATCH] fmt-merge-msg: " Alex Riesen
2006-02-21 20:36 ` Sam Vilain
2006-02-21 21:57 ` Alex Riesen
2006-02-21 22:19 ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-02-21 22:35 ` Eric Wong
2006-02-21 22:38 ` Shawn Pearce
2006-02-21 23:00 ` Martin Langhoff
2006-02-21 22:38 ` Sam Vilain
2006-02-22 16:35 ` Alex Riesen
2006-02-22 19:44 ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-02-22 19:51 ` Sam Vilain
2006-02-22 19:54 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-02-22 22:00 ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-02-22 22:25 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-02-23 8:00 ` Alex Riesen
2006-02-23 8:45 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-02-23 9:35 ` Alex Riesen
2006-02-23 9:41 ` Alex Riesen
2006-02-23 9:48 ` Andreas Ericsson
2006-02-23 10:10 ` Alex Riesen
2006-02-23 13:29 ` Andreas Ericsson
2006-02-23 14:07 ` Alex Riesen
2006-02-23 14:22 ` Andreas Ericsson
2006-02-23 17:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-02-23 19:32 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-02-23 19:38 ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-02-23 19:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-02-23 20:19 ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-02-23 19:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-02-23 20:31 ` Sam Vilain
2006-02-24 6:43 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-02-23 21:43 ` Alex Riesen [this message]
2006-02-26 19:55 ` Christopher Faylor
2006-02-26 20:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-02-26 20:40 ` Christopher Faylor
2006-03-02 14:18 ` Alex Riesen
2006-03-02 15:18 ` Mark Wooding
2006-03-02 16:11 ` Alex Riesen
2006-03-02 15:22 ` Christopher Faylor
2006-03-02 16:20 ` Alex Riesen
2006-02-26 23:17 ` NT directory traversal speed on 25K files on Cygwin Rutger Nijlunsing
2006-02-27 1:18 ` Christopher Faylor
2006-02-27 18:30 ` Rutger Nijlunsing
2006-02-27 18:34 ` Christopher Faylor
2006-02-27 9:19 ` Andreas Ericsson
2006-02-27 18:45 ` Rutger Nijlunsing
2006-03-02 13:40 ` Alex Riesen
2006-03-02 14:10 ` [PATCH] fmt-merge-msg: avoid open "-|" list form for Perl 5.6 Alex Riesen
2006-03-02 15:00 ` Christopher Faylor
2006-03-02 16:10 ` Alex Riesen
2006-03-02 17:39 ` Andreas Ericsson
2006-03-02 22:01 ` Alex Riesen
2006-02-26 20:33 ` Christopher Faylor
2006-02-24 12:02 ` Eric Wong
2006-02-24 13:44 ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-02-24 16:14 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-02-21 20:56 ` Eric Wong
2006-02-21 22:04 ` Alex Riesen
[not found] ` <1cf1c57a0602211412r1988b14ao435edd29207dc0d0@mail.gmail.com>
2006-02-21 22:13 ` Ron Parker
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-03-02 16:44 Christopher Faylor
2006-03-02 16:55 ` Shawn Pearce
2006-03-02 22:09 ` Alex Riesen
2006-03-02 23:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-03 0:34 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-03-03 0:49 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-03 1:25 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-03-03 1:52 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-03 0:14 ` Christopher Faylor
2006-03-02 17:33 ` Johannes Schindelin
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