Re: [RFC PATCH 0/6] [RFC] Introduce cgit-rs, a Rust wrapper around libgit.a
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- Dragan Simic <dsimic@manjaro.org>
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- Aug 8, 2024, 13:59 UTC
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On 2024-08-08 13:51, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
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> Cgit maintainer here... > > On Wed, Aug 07, 2024 at 11:21:25AM -0700, Josh Steadmon wrote: >> * bikeshedding on the name (yes, really). There is an active, >> unrelated >> CGit project [4] that we only recently became aware of. We >> originally >> took the name "cgit" because at $DAYJOB we sometimes refer to >> git.git >> as "cgit" to distinguish it from jgit [5]. > > Indeed, please find something else. Cgit is a real project, used by > many, such as git.kernel.org, and it'll turn into a real hassle for > both > of us if there's ambiguity and confusion.
Totally agreed, naming it cgit-rs makes pretty much no sense.
> What about libgit-rs? Or even libgit3, where the rustness of it is > simply an implementation detail, so the name won't feel dated 15 years > from now when everything is written in Rust anyway and -rs is so 2020s?
Well, there are still very active commercial projects written in COBOL or Clipper, for example, so I wouldn't go as far as _everything_ being written in Rust at some point.