Hi Alex, Alex Kost <alez...@gmail.com> writes:
> Mark H Weaver (2018-02-16 04:09 -0500) wrote: > >> How does your own magit package avoid requiring git as an input? I'd be >> curious to see the diff between your package definition and ours. > > My version of magit is attached. Actually this problem (requiring git > during compilation) was introduced occasionally in Magit 2.11.0 and was > fixed soon after that, so "git" input will not be needed in the next > release. > > If you want more details, tarsius (the maintainer of Magit) added some > code to bring attention for his fundraising campaign: > > > https://github.com/magit/magit/commit/bf71241122e1a0bf707913c87493214ceb12f588 Thanks for interesting details, and for your modified 'magit' package recipe. Having looked it over, I'm inclined to leave our 'magit' package as it is now. It's a very quick build, and also a leaf package (except for 'magit-svn'), so I don't see much practical benefit to removing 'git' as an input. Other opinions welcome :) Mark
