From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/10567 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Rich Felker Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general,gmane.comp.version-control.git Subject: Re: Re: Regression: git no longer works with musl libc's regex impl Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2016 18:33:22 -0400 Message-ID: <20161004223322.GE19318@brightrain.aerifal.cx> References: <20161004150848.GA7949@brightrain.aerifal.cx> <20161004152722.ex2nox43oj5ak4yi@sigill.intra.peff.net> <20161004154045.GT19318@brightrain.aerifal.cx> <20161005090625.683fdbbfac8164125dee6469@gmail.com> Reply-To: musl@lists.openwall.com NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1475620426 1442 195.159.176.226 (4 Oct 2016 22:33:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2016 22:33:46 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Cc: musl@lists.openwall.com, Johannes Schindelin , Jeff King , git@vger.kernel.org To: James B Original-X-From: musl-return-10580-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Wed Oct 05 00:33:43 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: gllmg-musl@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from mother.openwall.net ([195.42.179.200]) by blaine.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1brYHH-0007c2-NF for gllmg-musl@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Oct 2016 00:33:35 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 8119 invoked by uid 550); 4 Oct 2016 22:33:36 -0000 Mailing-List: contact musl-help@lists.openwall.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-ID: Original-Received: (qmail 8092 invoked from network); 4 Oct 2016 22:33:35 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20161005090625.683fdbbfac8164125dee6469@gmail.com> Original-Sender: Rich Felker Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:10567 gmane.comp.version-control.git:306156 Archived-At: On Wed, Oct 05, 2016 at 09:06:25AM +1100, James B wrote: > On Tue, 4 Oct 2016 18:08:33 +0200 (CEST) > Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > > > > No, it is not. You quote POSIX, but the matter of the fact is that we use > > a subset of POSIX in order to be able to keep things running on Windows. > > > > And quite honestly, there are lots of reasons to keep things running on > > Windows, and even to favor Windows support over musl support. Over four > > million reasons: the Git for Windows users. > > > > Wow, I don't know that Windows is a git's first-tier platform now, > and Linux/POSIX second. Are we talking about the same git that was > originally written in Linus Torvalds, and is used to manage Linux > kernel? Are you by any chance employed by Redmond, directly or > indirectly? > > Sorry - can't help it. I don't think the hostility and sarcasm are really needed here. But what this does speak to is that users don't like feeling like their platform is being treated as a second-class target, which is what it feels like when you have to manually flip a switch to make git build. This is especially unfriendly when the semantics of the switch come across, at least to some users, as "your system regex is incomplete" rather than "git can't use it because git depends on nonstandard extensions". Rich