Re: Core and Not-So Core

From: Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>
Date: May 11, 2005, 02:14 UTC
Message-ID: <20050511021413.GN26384@pasky.ji.cz>
In-Reply-To: <2cfc4032050510190950bba995@mail.gmail.com>

Dear diary, on Wed, May 11, 2005 at 04:09:49AM CEST, I got a letter where Jon Seymour <jon.seymour@gmail.com> told me that...

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> On 5/11/05, Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, 11 May 2005, Jon Seymour wrote:
> > 
> > > I did consider wrapping it - I really did. But after thinking about it
> > > for a couple of weeks I eventually came to the conclusion it would be a
> > > sub-optimal solution.
> > 
> > > So, if I want a stable foundation to build my stuff on, basing it on
> > > the output of the C tools would be a huge mistake.
> > 
> > Can Java use a library that's implemented in C, like Python
> > and Perl can?  If that is the case, the C implementation of
> > git simply needs the ability to be called as a library and
> > you can implement Java bindings for it.
> > 
> 
> It can in principle, yes. This is the so-called Java-Native-Interface (JNI).
> 
> I think in the longer term it would make sense to write a JNI layer
> but the GIT source code is probably a little too unstable for that
> now. What needs to happen first, I think, is that a solid and stable C
> API (e.g. a libgit) be proposed and developed.

FWIW, this is actually happening now (see Brad Roberts' posts in nearby thread).

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				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
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