Hello Jim, * Jim Meyering wrote on Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 01:46:47PM CEST: > +* Requirements > + > +We've opted to keep only the highest-level sources in the GIT repository. > +This eases our maintenance burden, (fewer merges etc.), but imposes more > +requirements on anyone wishing to build from the just-checked-out sources. > +For example, you have to use the latest stable versions of the maintainer > +tools we depend upon, including: > + > +- Autoconf <http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/> > +- Automake <http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/> > +- Gzip <http://www.gnu.org/software/gzip/> > +- Perl <http://www.cpan.org/> > +- Rsync <http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/> > +- Tar <http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/>
Sorry if I'm too dense to see it right now, but why are gzip, rsync, and tar needed to build off a git Autoconf tree? Merely as dependencies of git? In that case, aren't there other transports as well? Thanks, Ralf
