Re: [PATCH 22/40] Windows: Implement asynchronous functions as threads.

[Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>]

Hi,

[top-posting?]

On Thu, 28 Feb 2008, Paul Franz wrote:

> True there are the legal issues. And it is not known if it would help on 
> other platforms. My may concern is Windows because if git could be made 
> available without some of msysGit's requirements. It would definitely 
> make it more palletable (sp?) to that community which is a large chunk 
> of developers, including my own work environment. I would love to switch 
> from ClearCase to git but there are issues. One of them is integration 
> with the Windows environment.

I think that you do not help the effort to bring Git to Windows, by 
suggesting even more work, for dubitable benefits.

And that is what I think of APR here.

NOTE: my only experience with APR on Windows is to get git-svn to compile, 
and there it was not only a PITA.  The result is _SLOW_.

> Another concern is performance penalty of using non-native calls under 
> Windows and that is one of the problems that I was hoping the using APR 
> would solve. I figure if it is good enough to support the network stuff 
> under Windows well maybe it would be good for git too.

The problems with Git and Windows are not network related.  They are with 
Windows' pitiful performance when it comes to spawn processes.

IMO your efforts to help Git on Windows would be better spent on the 
msysGit list, where you would learn about the real issues we face.

Ciao,
Dscho