[Development] Buddy group to help new contributors

[Elias Steurer]

 > git for windows comes with perl

Is this new? Because my installation does not have it. I just checked, 
and the folder my env path points to only contains git.exe, git-gui.exe, 
and no Perl. I don't share your positive experience with Perl on 
Windows; see my earlier posts in this thread for details. Ideally, we 
would not replace the Perl script with a Python script, but rather 
remove the script entirely by moving to another code platform that does 
not need these hooks to make contributing easy.

For all other readers, I can recommend the lengthy discussion from the 
great people at Blender who had to deal with the discontinuation of 
Phabricator:

  * https://devtalk.blender.org/t/developer-blender-org-call-for-comments-and-participation/23451/8
  * https://devtalk.blender.org/t/developer-blender-org-call-for-comments-and-participation/23451/34
  * https://code.blender.org/2022/07/gitea-diaries-part-1/

Cheers 👋,

Eli

On 1/4/2024 3:15 PM, Oswald Buddenhagen via Development wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 04, 2024 at 11:35:45AM +0000, Edward Welbourne via 
> Development wrote:
>> Volker Hilsheimer (8 December 2023 23:55) wrote (inter alia):
>>>>> Would it make a huge difference if we didn’t require perl (and IIRC
>>>>> we only need it for the init-repository script)?
>>
>> Our post-commit hook also invokes sanitize-commit, which is a perl
>> script.
>>
>> Of course, it would not be beyond the wit of developers to rewrite both
>> into python; [...]
>>
> this whole "get rid of perl for the sake of windows users" is a 
> monumental red herring. because literally everyone already has perl 
> with all required modules installed the moment they have cloned qt the 
> way we instruct them to: git for windows comes with perl, because 
> significant parts of git are written in perl.
> putting ...\Git\usr\bin into the shell's PATH is not the recommended 
> installation mode of GfW, but having instructions to do so in a qt 
> build environment seems rather reasonable to me.
> and any git-something in PATH that gets run as `git something` (yes, 
> this just works) has perl in its PATH, which makes launching perl 
> scripts from qt5/qtrepotools//bin a breeze.
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