Shawn Pearce, Thu, Mar 02, 2006 17:55:10 +0100: > Maybe I missed this but why are people using the native Windows > ActiveState Perl with GIT+Cygwin when Cygwin has a Cygwin-ized Perl > installation available? because the people _can't_ use cygwin's perl. There are a lot of reasons mainly: administrative, perl script incompatibilities and cygwin.dll incompatibilities (if you use perl from cygwin, it'll need the correct cygwin.dll. And if a build process uses cygwin tools from, for example, QNX Momentics it often comes to clashes). > I've been using the Cygwin Perl with GIT without any problems > whatsoever. Including the open(I, "-|")... exec(@argv) code that > doesn't work correctly in ActiveState and started this whole thread. Unfortunately... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Fri Mar 03 09:10:36 2006
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