Re: [Administrivia] On ruby and contrib/

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jun 7, 2013, 15:20 UTC
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Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> writes:

> I think Felipe is using the argument that perl is declining to answer
> the question "why didn't you write git-related in perl instead?";
> that's it.

A question which nobody asked, I presume?

I think we heard enough from packaging folks that a new dependency is unwelcome. Also we heard from no regular/high-value reviewers that they feel comfortable reviewing additions in Ruby.

So at least for now, the conclusion is to take approach #1, i.e. somebody who finds "related" a good addition rewrites it in Perl to promote it out of contrib/ once the design issues settle (of course it is still a possibility that no such volunteer appears).

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