Re: [Mingw-cross-env-list] git

[James Garner]

Tonuy,

In?? Visual Studio?? 2017, msdev now has git capability integrated into 
the tools, but you have to turn it on. They also allow remote running of 
linux programs and remote debugging. They also support CMake within the 
environment, but the support provided is weaker than their native 
project mechanism. As is the debugging and exucution.

By default, msdev still uses team foundation and azure devops. They also 
hide the details of how git functions, so taht developpers accustomed to 
team foundation functioning will be comfortable/happy with their product.

The result is that the office, having used Team FoundationServer for 10 
years or so, continue with that, and will be switching to azure devops, 
not using git directly. I have little to no practical experience wiht 
the git mentality, and will have to read a bit more on it.

My office is strongly M$ centric, going on 20 years. At one point it was 
a unix devlopment shop, writing Oracle Forms on Sun Solaris, and having 
fun wuth rsh to execute xeyes on compartiosts machines, but those days 
are long gone.

I have a linux dev environment set up (as a virtual box) at the office, 
running CentOS 7, and at home I am running Fedora 30. I woulsd like to 
show my office that their goals of cross-platform development is closer 
under Linuzx than unsder the M$ stuff.

My observation is that M$ ONLY provides the barest minimum of support 
for competitors product streams as demanded by the community, and then, 
only if the companies are speaking to each other. Support of Oracle 
under M$ has been sporadic at best, a few years it is well supported, 
then a few years it is not supported, and it goes back and forth, like 
that. It is not something that allows for a long-term stable development 
environmnet. The reason: M$ wants you to use their SQL-server, not 
Oracle, and they can force it. Only trouble is that product is NOT as 
capable as Oracle, and never has been.?? My office is considering going 
to PostGRES, for cost davings. If they would also swihc to linux 
development, then they could get mare capability...


To answer your question: I have not yet read up on git.

I took the day off, so I am also doing laundry and making a Flan, among 
other things. Wife is sick, and kids are running around the house.

I went to the tire (tyre) store this morning to replace a tire (tyre) 
that went flat yesterday while the mxe build was finishing...

I had run 'make --jobs=4 --keep-going' to see what else built. Pretty 
much everythign except the fe mentioned earlier built. (it took about 5 
hours)

I am about to run the make command you requested on qt.make.

I'll post that when it finishes.


Cheers,

Jim


On 10/18/19 9:34 AM, Tony Theodore wrote:
> > [..]
> >
> > > On 18 Oct 2019, at 19:13, James Garner <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > Until 2017 version, M$dev did not use git at all, and even now, that it can use 
> > > it, it defaults to something else, so I am a complete neophyte with git.??
> Can you explain ???it defaults to something else????
>
> > Do read up up on `git`,
> [???]
> >   once you become accustomed to `git` you won???t have to worry about such 
> > things.
> Of course, there???s nothing about `git` that can???t be achieved with `darcs`, 
> `hg`, `bzr`,???
>
> If you???re coming from a Visual Studio world, you???ll come to see the paradox 
> of choice.
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> Tony
>
> P.S. are you using WSL for your Fedora instance?