[fpc-other] Re: [fpc-devel] Parallel processing in the compiler

[Henry Vermaak]

On 6 September 2010 12:21, Sven Barth <pascaldragon at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Am 06.09.2010 11:29, schrieb Henry Vermaak:
>>
>> Yes, I'm talking about msysgit.  It installs a whole msys tree, which
>> I am not interested in, as I've explained above.  Perhaps I'll try and
>> build git inside my own msys.  I have no idea why they just didn't
>> integrate it - I'm sure there must be a reason.
>
> It simplifies installation. They might have come to the conclusion that most
> users that want to use Git don't have a msys installation. And msys is
> needed for the tools and environment that Git relies on.

Obviously.

The problem, as I've stated previously, is that (imo) having two
different mingw/msys installations on the path would be asking for
trouble (different versions of gcc, libs, etc).  That's why some
people start with the git install, then unzip extra packages into that
directory when they need them.  Hopefully with the new mingw-get there
will be a package for git in time.

Henry