Re: [PATCH/RFC] Build a shared / renamed / "stable" version of the library?

From: Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>
Date: Sep 16, 2005, 21:10 UTC
Message-ID: <20050916211040.GU7646@kiste.smurf.noris.de>
In-Reply-To: <7vmzmcj1eo.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Hi,

Junio C Hamano:

> Matthias, I think you are solving a wrong problem.  More
> precisely, solving problems in a wrong order.
>

I've since looked a bit more closely at the "library" code, and ... well, you're obviously right. :-/

> can read many blobs without spawning git-cat-file for each of
> them, but that is about how far you could go.

Precisely that was the first application I needed the library for. ;-)

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> Don't get me wrong.  I would really want to see the guts of git
> libified and SWIG'ed.  That would help not just your Python
> thing but also StGIT and Fredrik merge (both are Python), as
> well as gitk (tcl/tk) and gitweb (Perl).  I would not even mind
> seeing all the git barebone Porcelain redone in Python once we
> go in that direction, ditching the shell scripts we currently
> have.
>

You and me both...

> *5* Maybe we would want separate git_init_cache,
> git_init_objects, ... and be able to mix and match them.  Maybe
> not.  
>

Makes sense. First steps would probably be to invent "struct git_repository" and "struct git_cache" data structures. Fun. ;-)

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