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Re: [PATCH/RFC 0/7] Support for Ruby

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brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Date
Sep 23, 2013, 01:41 UTC
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On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 05:00:44PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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>  - Moving away from higher-level scripting languages such as shell and Perl.
>    Recent "clean --interactive" may have added some code that could be
>    reused for a rewrite of "add -i" (which I think is in Perl), for example.
>    The minimum "You need to have these to use Git" should be made more
>    portable by doing *less* in shell or Perl, not by adding more in the higher-
>    level languages, and certainly not by adding other languages, be it Ruby or
>    Lua.

I can certainly go for that. C is faster and the codebase can be more consistent (and more portable to non-Unix). My concern was that if we're going to be adding additional languages, some previous warning would be appropriate. As I said, I wouldn't be able to deploy a git using Ruby immediately, and I'm sure I'm not the only one. If we're not going to be adding another language, then obviously the issue becomes moot.

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Message 22 of 26 in “Support for Ruby”
  1. 0/7 Support for RubyFelipe Contreras, Sep 21, 2013
  2. 1/7 Add support for ruby commandsFelipe Contreras, Sep 21, 2013
  3. 2/7 ruby: add setup scriptFelipe Contreras, Sep 21, 2013
  4. 3/7 ruby: add simple wrappersFelipe Contreras, Sep 21, 2013
  5. 4/7 ruby: rewrite 'request-pull'Felipe Contreras, Sep 21, 2013
  6. 5/7 ruby: rewrite perl scriptFelipe Contreras, Sep 21, 2013
  7. 6/7 ruby: remove one forkFelipe Contreras, Sep 21, 2013
  8. 7/7 ruby: rewrite 'reset'Felipe Contreras, Sep 21, 2013
  9. brian m. carlsonSep 21, 2013
  10. Felipe ContrerasSep 21, 2013
  11. brian m. carlsonSep 21, 2013
  12. Felipe ContrerasSep 22, 2013
  13. Fredrik GustafssonSep 22, 2013
  14. Felipe ContrerasSep 22, 2013
  15. Fredrik GustafssonSep 22, 2013
  16. Felipe ContrerasSep 22, 2013
  17. Patrick DonnellySep 23, 2013
  18. Felipe ContrerasSep 23, 2013
  19. Patrick DonnellySep 23, 2013
  20. Felipe ContrerasSep 23, 2013
  21. Junio C HamanoSep 23, 2013
  22. brian m. carlsonSep 23, 2013
  23. Felipe ContrerasSep 28, 2013
  24. Felipe ContrerasSep 23, 2013
  25. Felipe ContrerasSep 28, 2013
  26. Felipe ContrerasSep 28, 2013

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