Re: Libification project (SoC)

From: Steve Frécinaux <nudrema@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 19, 2007, 10:33 UTC
Message-ID: <1174300418.5884.50.camel@mejai>
In-Reply-To: <e5bfff550703190001k761541c7v2c259ef3f7695b10@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 08:01 +0100, Marco Costalba wrote:

> Please which are, in your opinion, the possible tools that could use a
> non-reentrant, blocking libgit? In case tool is already existent
> please write the name, in case it's a 'would be' one give a brief
> description.

Another idea that I just remembered about: two years ago there was a SoC project to make nautilus (the file manager from gnome) able to version directories. It was using SVN (and failed, but it's another story).

While nautilus is heavily multi-threaded, it's a "single-instance app", so there is at most only one instance of nautilus ever running. Under the hypothesis of a "versioned directories" support using libgit (that would be easier to do and support since it doesn't need to set up a server), it's quite obvious that a non-reentrant git would not be enough: you are likely to have more than one versioned directories on screen at the same time! OTOH, blocking doesn't look like an issue since gnomevfs already deals with quite a number of blocking synchronous libs and exposes an async API on top of those (similar to what QT Threading does, I guess).

BTW, if some Gnome people are reading, if libgit comes into life, such a project is something I'd like to see for real ;-)