[ATN: git maintainer] Git package depends on python

[ATN: git maintainer] Git package depends on python

[Jon Ross]

It looks like the git package installs python as a dependency. It
causes problems if you need a different win python runtime for your
projects.


Also, git doesn't seem to use python. I un-install python via setup
and git continues to work fine (at least for my typical usage). Nor
can I find any python files in the git package.


Seems a heavyweight dependency, and it doesn't seem to be used. Why is it there?


$ cygcheck.exe -fv /usr/bin/git
/usr/bin/git: found in package git-2.8.0-1


$ uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-6.1 2.5.1(0.297/5/3) 2016-04-21 22:14 x86_64 Cygwin

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Re: [ATN: git maintainer] Git package depends on python

[Warren Young]

On May 16, 2016, at 5:15 PM, Jon Ross <jonross@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Nor can I find any python files in the git package.

/usr/libexec/git-core/git-p4

I expect it is that file (or another like it) that cygport is finding and automatically adding the python dependency.

In the past, packages have had to be restructured to extract such non-core commands to avoid this.  In this case, it could be a git-p4 package, just for those rare people who use both Git and Perforce.
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Re: [ATN: git maintainer] Git package depends on python

[Yaakov Selkowitz]

On 2016-05-16 18:24, Warren Young wrote:
> On May 16, 2016, at 5:15 PM, Jon Ross <jonross@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Nor can I find any python files in the git package.
>
> /usr/libexec/git-core/git-p4
>
> I expect it is that file (or another like it) that cygport is finding and
> automatically adding the python dependency.

Exactly.

> In the past, packages have had to be restructured to extract such non-core
> commands to avoid this.  In this case, it could be a git-p4 package, just
> for those rare people who use both Git and Perforce.

+1 (and obviously it's manpage should go there too).

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