From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.180.0/23 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.3 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI, RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62EF220133 for ; Fri, 3 Mar 2017 19:09:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752173AbdCCTJh (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Mar 2017 14:09:37 -0500 Received: from pb-smtp2.pobox.com ([64.147.108.71]:53541 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752108AbdCCTJc (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Mar 2017 14:09:32 -0500 Received: from sasl.smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp2.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB732648A4; Fri, 3 Mar 2017 14:06:16 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=iUs3AbeDqazA+kzOOPD1s3ulNVU=; b=kDfk46 w9wWApQFtt63b29sES/GhOpoDQ07YTYlQzGaCT7qKNNJ6JDGkHvqYsF/6Nflyu5C CiNKYzHyRT0fn8DDYKkJ5OvgNR2FQ4aIMDmSo7GoqP/jBNiAugFtPMzooy7q/0Yk ovYx9lNzcBIRNdZeJzVLv5WZorEyH9RiqhU18= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=hqx96y7wcrKq3+RjW1KlQhwzYW091UtT sdTGuxLVnoNk0sfMFPf1BbWDWiIaCpefegkcJvJtZcxUAePZPvbkMO/ju2b3EXOL EWvur5xeI/zKfZ9JG9xoNwHu5vEXkPVs/t7P6Adwowm1deHwv9Y5iKlXz4O2km5V ywNJ3XI156s= Received: from pb-smtp2.nyi.icgroup.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp2.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B57B2648A3; Fri, 3 Mar 2017 14:06:16 -0500 (EST) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [104.132.0.95]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pb-smtp2.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 2688D648A2; Fri, 3 Mar 2017 14:06:16 -0500 (EST) From: Junio C Hamano To: Jeff King Cc: Sebastian Schuberth , git@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Do not require Python for the git-remote-{bzr,hg} placeholder scripts References: <0102015a93d18443-c574aaf8-5656-49e8-8848-810e1fadc87a-000000@eu-west-1.amazonses.com> <20170303112104.2n3hu23sajpn2x2z@sigill.intra.peff.net> Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2017 11:06:15 -0800 In-Reply-To: <20170303112104.2n3hu23sajpn2x2z@sigill.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Fri, 3 Mar 2017 06:21:04 -0500") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.91 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 79F0A59A-0044-11E7-AACB-FC50AE2156B6-77302942!pb-smtp2.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Jeff King writes: > On Fri, Mar 03, 2017 at 10:57:46AM +0000, Sebastian Schuberth wrote: > >> It does not make sense for these placeholder scripts to depend on Python >> just because the real scripts do. At the example of Git for Windows, we >> would not even be able to see those warnings as it does not ship with >> Python. So just use plain shell scripts instead. > > Yeah, this seems like an obvious improvement. I think we got here > because the originals issued a warning but kept working, and then it was > slowly whittled down to remove the "working" part. > ... > OTOH, it is not really hurting much, so I do not mind keeping them > around for another 3 years (or more) just to catch any stragglers. Yup, let's queue it and remove it in a few years. Thanks.