On 4/10/07, Aaron Spike <aaron@...476...> wrote:
Bill Baxter wrote:
Looking now, I see git is available precompiled from Cygwin at last, but I still get an uneasy feeling about relying on a tool that is so unapologetically Linux-centric as the backbone for a cross-platform app like Inkscape. Platform-specific issues like line-end translation do exist, and I would be surprised if Git devs proved to be very receptive about dealing with such issues since they can't even be bothered to make link for a Mac or Windows client on their web Page.
I spent some time in #git a few weeks back talking about win32 support with the devs. I must say they were nothing but helpful. At that time there wasn't a fully polished win32 git client, but they helped me work through compiling a native git with mingw. I'm sure they would have also helped me work through installing git with cygwin, but I only spent a few days there. We also discussed git on win32 on this mailing list at about the same time (you could check the archives to catch up on all the details). My experience with win32 and the git community runs contrary to your supposition.
That's good to hear. Times do change. It was about a year ago when I last looked into Git.
No there isn't a finly polished git client for us to use today, but this is nothing but a manpower problem.
Well, manpower is really everything when it comes to an open source project isn't it? The fact that Git still doesn't have enough of it to get binary releases up on the web page for 2 of the 3 most popular OS's just seemed like a red flag to me, that's all.
I do see they suggest a 1-click windows installer as a SoC project, though. So they're thinking about it. And the fact that they are part of SoC to begin with says good things, too.
And I'm definitely relieved to find that at least Cygwin has precompiled Git now.
--bb