Re: Importing Mozilla CVS into git

From: Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com>
Date: 2006-06-02 13:55:18
On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 23:47 -0400, Jon Smirl wrote:
> On 6/1/06, Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com> wrote:
> > Git runs fine on Windows these days; asking people to use reasonable
> > tools to contribute to the project doesn't seem crazy to me.
> 
> WIndows, Mac, Solaris and Linux will cover most Firefox developers.
> Is git to go on those platforms? Is WIndows native or cygwin?

I think the windows stuff may still be cygwin, but Mac and Solaris work
fine with the git, of course. It's just simple posix code, after all

> There are a few more people on weird platforms that will need a solution.
> Are perl and shell script still a requirement?

Yeah, quite a bit of both of those still. Less over time as people
figure out that C code is generally easier to fix than a nasty
combination of C code, shell scripts and perl line noise.

-- 
keith.packard@intel.com

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