Re: [PATCH] fmt-merge-msg: avoid open "-|" list form for Perl 5.6

Linus Torvalds, Thu, Feb 23, 2006 18:13:43 +0100:

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Someday we'll have to start dropping features on Windows or restrict them
beyond their usefullness.

One thing that would help a bit would be to avoid shell.

There are many portable interpreters out there, and I don't mean perl. And 
writing a small "specialized for git" one isn't even that hard. In fact, 
most of the shell (and bash) hackery we do now would be unnecessary if we 
just made a small "git interpreter" that ran "git scripts".

The fact that it would also help portability is just an added advantage.

I actually was dreaming about taking a vacation and rewrite at least
the most important scripts in C, but without cygwin. Implement the
needed subset of POSIX in compat/, workaround fork.

That'd help me to present git to my collegues without requiring them
to install cygwin, perl and python first. It is a real problem to
explain why a new tool is better than the old one if the problem start
right from installation, and it probably wont matter how bad the old
tool is (it is, they know that too, but it has windows, doors and a
mostly running man for busy-waiting cursor).

A gits own interpreter would be more than, of course.