Re: Git.pm

> Actually there are one and a half of Perl interfaces to Git: Git.pm
> created by Pasky (who, as far as I understand is not a Perl hacker)
> which is in git.git repository, and Git::Repo and friends created by
> Lea Wiemann during her work on "gitweb caching" project at Google
> Summer of Code 2008 (you can find her repository at git wiki page
> http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/SoC2008Projects).
>
>
> If I remember history of Git.pm correctly, it was first created as a
> way to collect together and uniquify various versions of safe_pipe and
> safe_qx which were used by various Perl scripts in git; something like
> Perl version of git-sh-setup.sh for shell scripts... At first it even
> used XS in parts, but the build system was deemed too unportable (it
> depended on -fPIC). One of design decisions was to use Error.pm for
> throwing errors; I'm not a Perl hacker, so I cannot say if this was a
> good decision, and if implementation of this part is good.

> Lea Wiemann work on Git::Repo and friends was created as object
> oriented interface. It was build from ground up instead of reusing
> Git.pm to be not encumbered by Git.pm cruft... unfortunately it means
> also abandoning all the work that went in Git.pm to make it portable
> (read: make it work with crippled ActiveState Perl). You can find
> discussion on the design of Git::Repo and decision of it being clean
> state implementation at link given by Pasky.
>
> P.S. I have "[RFC] Git Perl bindings, and OO interface" half-written
> (well, more like a third), a bit stalled. I'll try to find time to
> finish it and send it to git mailing list.