Am 25.11.2012 03:44, schrieb Eric S. Raymond: > That, among other things, means up-to-date versions of Python are > ubiquitous unless we're looking at Windows - in which case Perl and > shell actually become much bigger portability problems.
You seem to ignore that more than a quater of users are on Windows[1]. This is not negligible. Therefore, we *are* looking at Windows. But where is there a portability problem? There is a POSIX shell available in all git installations on Windows. So is Perl. Python is not. [1] https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/GitSurvey2011#10._On_which_operating_system.28s.29_do_you_use_Git.3F > 4) We should be encouraging C code to move to Python, too. Absolutely not. To achieve best portability, all code should move to C instead. -- Hannes -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
