Re: Git on MSys (or how to make it easy for Windows users to compile git)

Dmitry Kakurin said the following on 03.08.2007 08:56:

Great job! Because finding and installing MSys, MinGW and dependencies was not trivial at all.
I have 2 suggestions for this package:
1. Remove git repository from it. It will make a download much smaller (~20MB smaller) and include the minimum git functionality to 
pull mingw git from the server (may be even automatically on first startup).
2. Add gdb. Not much could be done without it.

With this package (+gdb) it took me about an hour to figure out why git is broken on Vista (this includes learning how to use gdb 
:-). So you should expect much higher level of participation on the Windows side.

P.S. If package becomes sufficiently small for a single file, try to remove 7zip dependency (use WinZip instead). The easier the 
installation the better.

Heh, why don't you try to do this yourself? Johannes as kind enough to 
go out of his way to actually do all that he has already.
Seems like you feel strongly for it, so it shouldn't be too much 
effort for you. If you provide Johannes with a link to a package of 
which you speak, I'm sure he'll happily upload it to the google 
project page.

-- 
.marius