On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 11:33 AM, Eric S. Raymond <e...@thyrsus.com> wrote: > Pat Thoyts <pattho...@gmail.com>: >> Git for Windows simply ships everything we need to run git - so if a >> desirable module requires a version of python, we will add that >> version plus any required modules into the installer. We already have >> a patch to provide python in the msysgit tree - it would just require >> polishing up a little. I'm certain this is no problem for the other >> windows port (cygwin) either. > > Thank you - I think this completely disposes of the "Windows is a blocker > for scripting language X" argument, with the case X = Python in point.
As the one who wrote that patch; not at all. That patch is a horrible mess, and it is not yet proven that the resulting python executable works any more than a basic hello world. -- 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
