From: Jon Seymour <jon.seymour@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 02:49:21 GMT
Subject: Re: RFC: a plugin architecture for git extensions?
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On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 12:15 PM, Jon Seymour <jon.seymour@gmail.com> wrote:
> Then a command like:
>
>    git install gitwork
>
> would trivially work across all distributions precisely because the
> distribution has provided the implementation of the git install
> interface contract that git-core has helpfully mandated.
>

Or better yet, git-core could provide a trivial git install
implementation that selects between different distribution manager
supplied plugins selected according to some heuristic, allowing
several distribution managers to happily manage plugins in the same
git instance.

I have to ask.

Is such an architecture really "absolutely horrid"? Is it  "crap"? Really?

jon.