Can this discussion be split off into a separate discussion. It's tangential to the PEP and clearly not actively progressing so it doesn't seem productive. I don't care where it's taken, but I don't think this belongs here. Speculation on the actions of the msysgit project are not fair talk for this PEP. On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 12:14 PM, Paul Moore
On 30 November 2014 at 16:08, Donald Stufft
wrote: On Nov 30, 2014, at 7:31 AM, Paul Moore
wrote: On 29 November 2014 at 23:27, Donald Stufft
wrote: In previous years there was concern about how well supported git was on Windows in comparison to Mercurial. However git has grown to support Windows as a first class citizen. In addition to that, for Windows users who are not well aquanted with the Windows command line there are GUI options as well.
I have little opinion on the PEP as a whole, but is the above statement true? From the git website, version 2.2.0 is current, and yet the downloadable Windows version is still 1.9.4. That's a fairly significant version lag for a "first class citizen".
I like git, and it has a number of windows-specific extensions that are really useful (more than Mercurial, AFAIK), but I wouldn't say that the core product supported Windows on an equal footing to Linux.
Paul
I think so yes. I may be wrong, however while 1.9.4 may be the latest downloadable version of git for Windows, there is no downloadable version of the Linux clients at all, they just tell you to go use your package manager which for instance is version 1.7 on Debian. On OS X the latest version is 2.0.1.
OTOH, presumably you can build your own copy of git from source on Linux/OSX. I haven't tried this on Windows but it looks pretty difficult (you start by downloading the msysgit development environment and go from there). Also, if it's easy to produce binaries for 2.2.0 on Windows, why haven't the msysgit project (still an external project, to an extent, AFAICT) done so?
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