[gst-devel] GStreamer switching to git

[Ole André Vadla Ravnås]

On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 11:10 AM, Ole André Vadla Ravnås
<oleavr at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 2:10 PM, Sean Estabrooks <seanlkml at sympatico.ca> wrote:
>> On Thu, 10 Jul 2008 13:54:32 +0300
>> "Ole André Vadla Ravnås" <oleavr at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm aware that things are in heavy development, and that's really
>>> promising. However, for those of us stuck doing GStreamer development
>>> on this broken platform it's less of an option to put our current
>>> efforts on hold, or reduce our productivity by having to fix bugs in
>>> tools that aren't quite there yet. There's certainly enough
>>> interesting problems to solve with the code itself on this platform,
>>> and personally I'm already bogged down with maintenance of another
>>> build system (because autotools isn't usable for day-to-day
>>> development on Windows), and introducing even more tools that aren't
>>> there yet on the portability-side will just make things even less
>>> productive.
>>
>> Git is a healthy project with lots of active development so things are
>> improving all the time.  But that's not to say that the current version
>> of Git on Windows is unacceptable.  Do you have any specific complaints
>> against the current implementation?
>
> Sorry for the late reply on this one, I was abroad without access to
> any Windows system so I had to wait until I came home in order to
> re-evaluate.
>
> After giving it a fresh spin I am now happy to announce that my
> show-stopper complaints have all been addressed and are now obsolete!

Bad wording here; by 'show-stopper' I meant something that I
considered a show-stopper for myself giving the switching decision a
loud +1. :)

Cheers,
Ole André