Re: [Tcllib-devel] Regarding SourceForge, the Tcllib CVS, and transitioning somewhere.

[Lars H. <Lar...@re...>]

Kevin Kenny skrev 2011-02-16 03.27:
> On 02/15/2011 01:04 PM, Andreas Kupries wrote:
>> Regarding the core assumption behind the argument, of git not being good on
>> Win, that I can't really evaluate. I haven't used git very much and not at all
>> on Windows.
>
> Git sort of works on Windows, but you have to install a ton of other
> stuff first, and I'd practically have to virtualize to do it (cygwin
> conflicts and the like). Fossil is a single executable on Windows and
> works just as well there as it does on Unix. My only annoyance is that
> it cannot be configured to do line-ending substitution.

That could actually be a show-stopper. It seems that quite commonly editors 
on Windows (at least those which students can easily obtain, install, and 
use) can only do CRLF line-ends, whereas Unix utilities (of course) insist on 
LF. Not getting line conversions out-of-the-box is to be asking for trouble.

Lars Hellström