Curtis Jewell wrote: > And I will say this: > > I know it's not horribly important, but switching to git, especially > without using something like github, is almost a non-starter for a > Windows Perl user. > > The reason being that Msys-git (the one native version of git for > Windows) installs its own perl and throws it in the path, which is not a > good thing. I've had to support someone on #win32 who didn't realize > that at first.
That's funny, I don't see anything in their issue tracker about this. *hint hint* Downloading the latest version now to see what happens. I have a Windows XP with Strawberry Perl and Cygwin's git installed. Should be fun... Selecting the "Use git-bash only" conservative choice... works as advertised. PATH is untouched. git and git's perl only shows up in the special git-bash window. You can develop in one and commit in the other. It looks like this is no longer a problem. There's also a portable version which shouldn't install anything. > Github makes this not so important (because of its ability to download > tarballs and edit on the web site) but it's still a pain to have to make > all your changes again on the web site after working on them on my > machine. Or edit locally and push to Windows using rsync. Not optimal, but a whole lot better than hand copying edits to the web site. > And using git sans github (say, the perl5 interpreter > repository) is even more of a pain. ...which is mirrored at http://github.com/github/perl Anyhow, there is also the Cygwin git option. <insert people bitching about Cygwin here> So I'd say Windows is well served. -- I have a date with some giant cartoon robots and booze.
