From: John Tapsell Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 12:08:10 GMT Subject: Re: Generalised bisection Message-ID: <43d8ce650903110508o3d12f32m8202fae750d215a@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: 2009/3/11 Johannes Schindelin : > Hi, > > On Wed, 11 Mar 2009, John Tapsell wrote: > >> 2009/3/11 Ealdwulf Wuffinga : >> > On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 7:08 AM, Christian Couder >> > 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. > > Not "for example".  It was the only dependency of git.git on Python, and > the rewrite of merge-recursive was only done to break that dependency, as > I had a platform where I could not install Python. But installing perl was no problem? (Just curious) John