Re: [PATCH/RFC] Build a shared / renamed / "stable" version of the library?

From: Chuck Lever <cel@citi.umich.edu>
Date: Sep 16, 2005, 19:48 UTC
Message-ID: <432B2172.8090803@citi.umich.edu>
In-Reply-To: <7vmzmcj1eo.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano wrote:

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>  - Management of even the most basic data structures used in
>    libgit.a shares the "run once" mentality.  I can offhand
>    think of three but I am sure there are more:
> 
>    - active_cache: once you are done with the current cache, it
>      is very hard to reinitialize and use it without losing
>      memory [*2*];

> *2* Hopefully this will be fixed when Chuck is done but the work
> and the discussion has just been started and I do not know how the
> timeframe of this cache abstraction cleanup meshes with 1.0
> timeframe.

well, i kept the "run-once" mentality. if that's something you'd like to go away, i can do that too, at some later point.

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