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Re: Generalised bisection

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John Tapsell <johnflux@gmail.com>
Date
Mar 11, 2009, 09:35 UTC
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2009/3/11 Ealdwulf Wuffinga <ealdwulf@googlemail.com>:
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> On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 7:08 AM, Christian Couder
> <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> wrote:
>
>> I will try to have a look at the end of this week.
>> But do you want it to be integrated with Git or do you want it to be an
>> independant project that works with many different version control system?
>
> Hmm. Whatever works, I guess. On the one hand the code does seem
> naturally generic. On the other hand, it's good if users don't
> have to separately obtain an extra package to use it. Supposing that
> the algorithm proves useful, would the git project  be okay with an
> extra dependency, or would you want to integrate it? Right now it's in
> python, which I understand is an obstacle to integration.

There used to be a dependency on python. git-merge-recursive for example, before it was converted to C.

mpmath might be the more annoying dependency - what functions do you use from it? Could they trivially be reimplemented?

John Tapsell
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  1. Ealdwulf WuffingaMar 9, 2009
  2. Christian CouderMar 10, 2009
  3. Ealdwulf WuffingaMar 11, 2009
  4. John TapsellMar 11, 2009
  5. Johannes SchindelinMar 11, 2009
  6. John TapsellMar 11, 2009
  7. Johannes SchindelinMar 11, 2009
  8. John TapsellMar 11, 2009
  9. Ealdwulf WuffingaMar 11, 2009
  10. Ealdwulf WuffingaMar 11, 2009
  11. John TapsellMar 12, 2009
  12. Johannes SchindelinMar 12, 2009
  13. Steven TweedMar 12, 2009
  14. Ealdwulf WuffingaMar 13, 2009
  15. Ealdwulf WuffingaMar 13, 2009
  16. Steven TweedMar 13, 2009
  17. Ealdwulf WuffingaMar 15, 2009
  18. Steven TweedMar 16, 2009
  19. John TapsellMar 16, 2009
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  21. Ealdwulf WuffingaMar 16, 2009
  22. Ealdwulf WuffingaMar 13, 2009
  23. Johannes SchindelinMar 13, 2009
  24. John TapsellMar 13, 2009
  25. Johannes SchindelinMar 13, 2009

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