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

Fair enough.
Johannes, please add me as a user to this Google project and I'll
upload the files.
The changes that I've made:
* removed .git in /git directory to save space
* installed gdb
* applied my Vista fix
* made self-extracting .rar archive

Tatal size is 19+4 MB.

- Dmitry

On 8/3/07, Marius Storm-Olsen [off-list ref] wrote:

Dmitry Kakurin said the following on 03.08.2007 08:56:

quoted

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