[Python-Dev] PEP 481 - Migrate Some Supporting Repositories to Git and Github

[Ian Cordasco]

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 <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 30 November 2014 at 16:08, Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:
>>> On Nov 30, 2014, at 7:31 AM, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 29 November 2014 at 23:27, Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> 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?
>
> Paul
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