Moving to D

Vladimir Panteleev vladimir at thecybershadow.net
Fri Jan 7 04:04:55 PST 2011


On Fri, 07 Jan 2011 04:31:35 +0200, Andrej Mitrovic  
<andrej.mitrovich at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 1/7/11, Vladimir Panteleev <vladimir at thecybershadow.net> wrote:
>> On Fri, 07 Jan 2011 04:09:04 +0200, Andrej Mitrovic
>> <andrej.mitrovich at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I don't think git really needs MSYS? I mean I've just installed git
>>> again and it does have it's own executable runnable from the console.
>>
>> MSysGit comes with its own copy of MSys. It's pretty transparent to the
>> user, though.
>
> Aye, but I didn't download that one, I got the one on the top here:
> https://code.google.com/p/msysgit/downloads/list?can=3
>
> And if I put git.exe in it's own directory the only .dll it complains
> about is libiconv2.dll (well that, and some missing templates). Using
> these two alone seems to work fine.

Ah, that's interesting! Must be a recent change. So they finally rewrote  
all the remaining bash/perl components to C? If so, that should give it a  
significant speed boost, most noticeable on Windows.

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Best regards,
  Vladimir                            mailto:vladimir at thecybershadow.net


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