Re: GitTogether topics status

> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 10:03 PM, Christian Couder
>
> <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> wrote:
> > Le jeudi 18 septembre 2008, Jakub Narebski a écrit :
> >
> >> What also might be interesting to talk about scriptability, having
> >> defined API, libification (I see that there is planned), interfaces to
> >> other programming languages versus calling git plumbing versus
> >> reimplementing git in other languages (e.g. JGit vs JavaGit, Grit vs
> >> Ruby/Git, GitPython vs PyGit, Git.pm vs Git::Repo), but I guess this
> >> discussion could be had on git mailing list.
> >
> > The following topics are now together on the wiki:
> >
> >  * Linkable library for basic object access (libification or new
> > library) * Scriptability, using git in other languages (using
> > interfaces vs calling plumbing vs reimplementting)
> >
> > The second one is new.
> >
> > If we want these topics to be discussed during the GitTogether, we need
> > someone who wants to talk about or at least introduce these subjects
> > though. (Hint, hint.)
>
> I would be happy to talk about / introduce at least the second one,
> since I've done most of the work on the pure-ruby implementation of
> git in the Grit project, which is one of the more popular of the
> re-implementations out there (and runs the GitHub site).  I would also
> be happy to help with a discussion on the first one, since I added it
> to the wiki in the first place and it is heavily connected to the
> second topic.  I very much want to see a library that provides basic
> Git object access that we can use to write proper bindings in
> Ruby/Python/Perl.  If the current Git code is too difficult to libify
> properly, then perhaps an alternate C implementation that is built
> only for that purpose is preferable to having a re-implementation in
> _every_ language.  Looking forward to the discussion.