Can this discussion be split off into a separate discussion. It's tangential to the PEP and clearly not actively progressing so it doesn't seem productive. I don't care where it's taken, but I don't think this belongs here. Speculation on the actions of the msysgit project are not fair talk for this PEP.
On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 12:14 PM, Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 30 November 2014 at 16:08, Donald Stufft <don...@stufft.io> wrote: >>> On Nov 30, 2014, at 7:31 AM, Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> On 29 November 2014 at 23:27, Donald Stufft <don...@stufft.io> wrote: >>>> In previous years there was concern about how well supported git was on >>>> Windows >>>> in comparison to Mercurial. However git has grown to support Windows as a >>>> first >>>> class citizen. In addition to that, for Windows users who are not well >>>> aquanted >>>> with the Windows command line there are GUI options as well. >>> >>> I have little opinion on the PEP as a whole, but is the above >>> statement true? From the git website, version 2.2.0 is current, and >>> yet the downloadable Windows version is still 1.9.4. That's a fairly >>> significant version lag for a "first class citizen". >>> >>> I like git, and it has a number of windows-specific extensions that >>> are really useful (more than Mercurial, AFAIK), but I wouldn't say >>> that the core product supported Windows on an equal footing to Linux. >>> >>> Paul >> >> I think so yes. I may be wrong, however while 1.9.4 may be the latest >> downloadable version of git for Windows, there is no downloadable >> version of the Linux clients at all, they just tell you to go use >> your package manager which for instance is version 1.7 on Debian. On >> OS X the latest version is 2.0.1. > > OTOH, presumably you can build your own copy of git from source on > Linux/OSX. I haven't tried this on Windows but it looks pretty > difficult (you start by downloading the msysgit development > environment and go from there). Also, if it's easy to produce binaries > for 2.2.0 on Windows, why haven't the msysgit project (still an > external project, to an extent, AFAICT) done so? > > Paul > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: > https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/graffatcolmingov%40gmail.com _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
