From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Felipe Contreras Subject: Re: [Administrivia] On ruby and contrib/ Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2013 14:14:13 -0500 Message-ID: References: <7vtxld30f2.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <7va9n52zjc.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: Ramkumar Ramachandra , Greg Troxel , Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org, Jeff King , Jonathan Nieder , Thomas Rast , =?UTF-8?Q?Ren=C3=A9_Scharfe?= , Michael Haggerty , Matthieu Moy , =?UTF-8?B?Tmd1ecKtbiBUaMOhaSBOZ8O3YyBEdXk=?= , Ramsay Jones , Erik Faye-Lund , Johannes Sixt To: Johannes Schindelin X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Jun 07 21:14:21 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ul27A-0002Fz-0F for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Jun 2013 21:14:20 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754898Ab3FGTOQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Jun 2013 15:14:16 -0400 Received: from mail-lb0-f178.google.com ([209.85.217.178]:46989 "EHLO mail-lb0-f178.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752900Ab3FGTOP (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Jun 2013 15:14:15 -0400 Received: by mail-lb0-f178.google.com with SMTP id y6so3120710lbh.37 for ; Fri, 07 Jun 2013 12:14:13 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=N5u12u1o8QaFkBOwBZ85yuood5NDOTedmcXHJQm6irI=; b=bdqVQJirCXV8040C4MNB4xPtG1yO/iMkWZcnXtu5OyXHmC1W/84zynt5g8mOlRRIy0 wZuB1QFDBF400hLrbWdWuNSc7WCTUmN/bEGDTWPpb7RxmTDuVMOLk/UAveUpEvABGjhX 1yb3UAhCAB7qldTOFf2Qlgn4a9yW2QCUO2oZrQoFOmIGWEzVu6L5gUbKuS60oaaTN8d1 h2MzrHuc+9vH8lOa+xpJndYIFOq48fRwcFC8MZk92dcTa/BDYRHUNSlwNjUawzHk9nhV P0N7MmulwY5kStcsGSCJlwAXWpeMpg9UkwlEkHF7TdsI+aOx0eWu9+Zl9sZ3a3EfmQsd BKMQ== X-Received: by 10.152.7.74 with SMTP id h10mr3155269laa.83.1370632453703; Fri, 07 Jun 2013 12:14:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.59.202 with HTTP; Fri, 7 Jun 2013 12:14:13 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 10:25 PM, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > On Fri, 7 Jun 2013, Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote: > >> Johannes Schindelin wrote: >> > My initial reaction, too. It was hard enough to get Perl included with Git >> > for Windows (because of that pesky Subversion dependency). >> >> Nevertheless, we had to do it, and we did it. > > That is not quite correct. *I* did it. Not *we*. And I will not do it > again. That's fine, I can do it. I bet it will be easy. While at it, why not re-evaluate the whole msysgit approach? I bet we don't need a whole separate project just to create a Windows installer. I've written Windows installers before, it's very easy to do from Linux. >> Rewriting everything in C? Is anyone bored enough to pick up this task? >> Bourne shell is a great language for prototyping; git-rebase.sh (and >> friends), git-stash.sh, git-pull.sh are doing just fine. Sure, it makes >> sense to do heavy-lifting in C, and this is happening as it has always >> been happening (remember git-commit.sh?). If you followed the list >> emails, you'd know that Felipe is looking into delegating large portions >> of the work done by git-rebase.sh to sequencer.c. > > As you know, there are very good reasons why I do not follow those mails. To the detriment on the project. -- Felipe Contreras