From: Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com>
Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 11:39:15 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Update the bash prompt from 'applied' instead of the obsolete 'current'
Message-ID: <20070521113915.GA3090@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20070521101540.GB32510@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk>

On 2007-05-21 12:15:40 +0200, Karl Hasselström wrote:

> We might consider having plumbing written in C or something, and
> make sure that the plumbing can be called directly if there's need,
> but it's going to complicate things greatly compared to pure Python.

What I'm (foggily) envisioning here is to rewrite parts of StGIT (as
little as possible) as a C library (libstgit.so?), and call the
library both from the Python code, and from a "plumbing" C program
(stgit-helper?). We should not try to make the library API stable,
just like the current git library.

There are two kinds of things we'd want to have in the library: (1)
things that are too slow to do in Python, and (2) things that need to
be available from stgit-helper in order to avoid Python's startup
cost, such as top/applied/unapplied for the bash completion and bash
prompt.

-- 
Karl Hasselström, kha@treskal.com
      www.treskal.com/kalle