Changes between Initial Version and Version 2 of Ticket #45502


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Oct 20, 2014, 4:29:03 PM (10 years ago)
Author:
larryv (Lawrence Velázquez)
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How would this even work? Isn’t half of Git written in Perl?

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  • Ticket #45502

    • Property Owner changed from macports-tickets@… to ciserlohn@…
    • Property Version changed from 2.3.2 to
    • Property Type changed from defect to enhancement

  • Ticket #45502 – Description

    initial v2  
    1 git currently forces installation of the MacPorts perl port. Examining the git Makefile, it is possible to install git without Perl by defining NO_PERL (https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/Makefile Line 248).
     1git currently forces installation of the MacPorts perl port. Examining the git Makefile, it is possible to install git without Perl by defining NO_PERL (https://github.com/git/git/blob/v2.1.2/Makefile#L248).
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    33Would it be possible to add a variant that eliminates the Perl dependency? The perl port pulls in a lot of additional dependencies, eliminating it would allow for a much shorter and smaller git installation.