git/list[1] front-page[2] threads[3] people[4] search[5] about
 

Re: gitweb.cgi in C

From
Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date
Dec 8, 2005, 22:46 UTC
Message-ID
<20051208224626.GP22159@pasky.or.cz>
In-Reply-To
<7vfyp3b4ki.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Dear diary, on Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 11:35:09PM CET, I got a letter where Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> said that...

Show 11 quoted lines
> Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> writes:
> 
> > Dear diary, on Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 07:59:37PM CET, I got a letter
> > where Majkls <majkls@tiscali.cz> said that...
> >> What do you think about gitweb.cgi in C?
> >
> > To add to the collective dismay - why bother?
> 
> It _might_ make sense to do gitweb using libified git Smurf is
> working on, in order to reduce forks and execs, but that is
> mostly independent of rewriting that in C.

I'd see having Perl XS for libgit as something much more sensible. And you could do cute porcelain stuff with that as well.

-- 
				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/
VI has two modes: the one in which it beeps and the one in which
it doesn't.
Previous: Junio C HamanoNext: Junio C Hamano
Message 7 of 12 in “gitweb.cgi in C”
  1. MajklsDec 8, 2005
  2. Kay SieversDec 8, 2005
  3. Johannes SchindelinDec 8, 2005
  4. Ryan AndersonDec 8, 2005
  5. Petr BaudisDec 8, 2005
  6. Junio C HamanoDec 8, 2005
  7. Petr BaudisDec 8, 2005
  8. Junio C HamanoDec 9, 2005
  9. Randal L. SchwartzDec 9, 2005
  10. Junio C HamanoDec 9, 2005
  11. Andreas EricssonDec 8, 2005
  12. H. Peter AnvinDec 8, 2005

Read the whole thread, see it on lore, or plain text.

$ cat FOOTERMessages come from the public archive at lore.kernel.org/git, fetched every hour. The front page is chosen and written each morning by an AI editor and can be wrong; the threads themselves are the record. About and API. For agents: an MCP server at https://gitlist.dev/mcp, and any thread, story or person page as Markdown by adding .md to its URL (or sending Accept: text/markdown). Details in /llms.txt.