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Re: wip patch for using external git command



Aleksey Cheusov <vle%gmx.net@localhost> writes:

>> Not sure it's a good idea to worry about this, but I wonder how we
>> decide what version is good enough and document that, and how we deal
>> with that in tools.${PLATFORM}.  I guess as it stands, if macOS or a
>> GNU/Linux system has git, it's good enough, and it seems pretty likely
>> that for what git-package wants, that will be ok.
>
> Tools framework provides this functionality. See, for example,
> mk/tools/bison.mk file where BISON_REQD variable is defined with
> appropriate checks for version.
>
> As of now I don't see any application for GIT_REQD but we can easily
> implement it as soon as it is required.

That seems reasonable; thanks for the explanation.

>> Have you run this code on NetBSD, macOS, linux?
>
> Yes. All these systems were tested.

Great - I'm fine (with individual commenter hat on) with this, then.


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