Re: git-cl under Windows

[David Kastrup]

Graham Percival <address@hidden> writes:

> On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 11:40:58AM +0100, Trevor Daniels wrote:
>> The version from github.com/gperciva/git-cl.git ships without
>> the readline module.  It is not required for Unixes as it is
>> included with Unix python, I believe.
>
> Hmm.  If it's as simple as including a bunch of extra .py files,
> then I'm happy for those to be added to the repository.  But I
> suspect it needs something specially compiled.
>
>> It would be good if GUB could take this into account and build
>> in the readline module into the python library for the Windows
>> release, but I guess that is not trivial.
>
> Probably not.
>
>> In the meantime I'll try installing python from scratch and see
>> if the readline module will install then.
>
> Good luck.

My personal take on this is not to bother but disable use of the
readline module if unavailable.  git cl does not ask for interactive
input often enough to make that worth the trouble.

-- 
David Kastrup