On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 10:22 PM, Justin Haygood <jhayg...@reaktix.com>wrote:
> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Benjamin Meyer" <b...@meyerhome.net> > To: "WebKit Development" <webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org> > Sent: Sunday, July 05, 2009 11:25 PM > Subject: Re: [webkit-dev] Git Familiarity (was ChangeLog) > > >> At least on Windows I use mysygit myself ( >> http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/ ) From the project description: >> "Historically, Git on Windows was only officially supported using Cygwin. >> To help make a native Windows version, this project was started, based on >> the fork." >> >> > Still has the following problems: > 1. No Windows integrated UI. Windows is very UI driven, and all of the > development tools are UI based. Why should I open up a command line to do > VCS stuff? I don't have to open up a command line now. > > 2. No Visual Studio integration. Subversion not only has TortoiseSVN, but > there's AnkhSVN that lets you manage it entirely inside Visual Studio. The official instructions for getting and building WebKit involve things run from the command prompt. I agree that there are plenty of Windows based developers who would not be comfortable using a command line, but I find it hard to believe that there are many hacking on WebKit. And, if they are, they're probably savvy enough to write MSVC++ macros. For what it's worth, I support switching to git. It certainly will be painful for some, but I think it'll be a win before long. That said, I also think Maciej is right and that there are some bigger fish to fry at the moment. J
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