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Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2013 04:59:41 +0200 (CEST)
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To: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
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Hi Ram,

On Sat, 8 Jun 2013, Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:

> Felipe Contreras wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Yeah, taking the pain out of msysgit packaging would be a great way to
> counter this new-dependency-fud.  The main problem, as mm pointed out
> is subversion + perlxs.

Yeah, this is the main problem, and you probably will end up with a much
better (Linux-based) solution than the people who contributed to the Git
for Windows project in all those years since August 2007.

Surprise me, with code,
J