From: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag•fr>
To: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: Google Summer of Code 2007
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 10:03:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <vpq4pp6r6vw.fsf@olympe.imag.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200702280842.08279.andyparkins@gmail.com> (Andy Parkins's message of "Wed\, 28 Feb 2007 08\:42\:07 +0000")
Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail•com> writes:
> What about the oft-asked for windows port? From what I've seen, none of the
> Unix types have any incentive to do this, so a financial incentive might be
> just the thing.
+ 1. It seems the windows port somewhat has the status "we want it but
I'm not going to do it" for most git contributors.
I'm personnally using unix 99% of the time, but I also have a piece of
windows installed on my laptop. For example, I'm working on a small
project using windows-only software, and being able to use git
comfortably from this setup would be cool.
Also, I'm relucant to migrate to git completely even for unix-only
projects, since I know that a hypothetical future windows-port will be
made hard by the non-availability of the windows port.
> Given that the best thing for git in the long term is more users,
That's what I feel. The problem with distributed SCMs at the moment is
that there are too many of them, not sharing enough users. For
example, I had to choose a replacement for CVS with some colleagues
recently. I argued about using a distributed one, but the argument
against, and the decision was "SVN is what they're more likely to use
later, let's go for SVN no matter how bad it is".
> and that no windows support is the commonly given reason why other
> SCMs are chosen instead, this would be a good use of the resources.
Sure. One of the best examples being Mozilla. I hardly see them using
a piece of software that's not working properly on windows, since the
majority of users (and probably of the developers, I don't know) are
running windows.
--
Matthieu
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-28 9:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-25 7:59 Google Summer of Code 2007 Shawn O. Pearce
2007-02-27 20:47 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-02-28 8:42 ` Andy Parkins
2007-02-28 9:03 ` Matthieu Moy [this message]
2007-03-02 20:36 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-02-28 9:35 ` Raimund Bauer
2007-02-28 15:39 ` Brian Gernhardt
2007-02-28 15:47 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-02-28 16:00 ` Brian Gernhardt
2007-03-01 2:08 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-03-01 8:03 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-03-01 21:34 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-03-04 22:10 ` Martin Langhoff
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