Re: [PATCH v2] t/Makefile: add a rule to re-run previously-failed tests

On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 5:05 PM, Johannes Schindelin
[off-list ref] wrote:

Hi Ævar,

On Wed, 31 Aug 2016, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:

quoted

I haven't used it myself (or any Windows thing) but people say good
things about http://strawberryperl.com

Ah yes. This comes up frequently. Many a Git for Windows user pointed me
into that direction.

The biggest problem with Strawberry Perl is that it is virtually
impossible to build the Subversion-Perl bindings using the Git for Windows
SDK when using Strawberry Perl.

Which pretty much precludes it from being used in Git for Windows.

And then there are the path issues... Git's Perl scripts are pretty
certain that they live in a POSIX-y environment. Which MSYS2 Perl
provides. Strawberry Perl not.

This might be me missing the point, and I'm really just trying to be
helpful here and make "prove" work for you because it's awesome, but
as far as just you running this for development purposes does any of
this SVN stuff matter? I.e. you can build Git itself not with
Strawberry, but just use Strawberry to get a working copy of "prove".