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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: "Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@gentoo.org>,
	Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>,
	Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] NO_PERL support
Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 16:51:09 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0904031649400.10279@pacific.mpi-cbg.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090403132029.GC21153@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Hi,

On Fri, 3 Apr 2009, Jeff King wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 12:03:50AM -0700, Robin H. Johnson wrote:
> 
> > Effects:
> > - No perl-based scripts or code are installed:
> > 	$SCRIPT_PERL
> > 	git-instaweb
> > 	gitweb
> > 	git-cvsserver
> > 	git-svn
> > - git-add does NOT have interactive support.
> > - None of the tests for the disabled stuff gets run.
> 
> Hmm. With this patch, a user with a NO_PERL build will just get:
> 
>   $ git svn
>   git: 'svn' is not a git-command. See 'git --help'.
>   $ git add -i
>   error: unknown switch `i'
>   usage: ...
> 
> I wonder if we should be a little nicer and say "we know about this
> command or option, but we did not build support for it". OTOH, what you
> have mirrors what NO_TCLTK does, so perhaps it is not a big deal.

Actually, "add -i" is a part of another program that does work without 
Perl, so it is quite a different kind of kettle.

It is not like "git gui" works with NO_TCLTK but "git gui -i" does not.

Ciao,
Dscho

  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-03 14:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-03  7:03 [PATCH] NO_PERL support Robin H. Johnson
2009-04-03 13:20 ` Jeff King
2009-04-03 14:51   ` Johannes Schindelin [this message]
2009-04-03 14:53     ` Jeff King
2009-04-03 15:02       ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-04-03 15:11         ` Miklos Vajna
2009-04-03 15:16         ` Jeff King
2009-04-03 17:54   ` Johannes Sixt
2009-04-03 18:37     ` Jeff King
2009-04-03 15:46 ` Jeff King
2009-04-03 15:59   ` Robin H. Johnson
2009-04-03 16:18     ` Jeff King
2009-04-03 16:25 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-04-03 17:15   ` Jeff King
2009-04-03 20:20     ` Junio C Hamano
2009-04-03 20:56       ` Jeff King
2009-04-03 19:27 ` [PATCH 0/4] " Jeff King
2009-04-03 19:28   ` [PATCH 1/4] commit: abort commit if interactive add failed Jeff King
2009-04-03 19:31   ` [PATCH 2/4] tests: remove exit after test_done call Jeff King
2009-04-03 19:32   ` [PATCH 3/4] Makefile: allow building without perl Jeff King
2009-04-04 22:47     ` Robin H. Johnson
2009-04-04 23:39       ` Jeff King
2009-04-04 23:51         ` Robin H. Johnson
2009-04-04 23:56           ` Jeff King
2009-04-05  0:06             ` Robin H. Johnson
2009-04-07  7:27               ` Jeff King
2009-04-03 19:33   ` [PATCH 4/4] tests: skip perl tests if NO_PERL is defined Jeff King
2009-04-04 23:30     ` Robin H. Johnson
2009-04-04 23:42       ` Jeff King
2009-04-07  7:31   ` [PATCH 0/4] NO_PERL support Jeff King

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