From: Patrick Donnelly Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2012 07:11:55 GMT Subject: Re: Python extension commands in git - request for policy change Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20121212033043.GA24937@thyrsus.com> Hi Eric, On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 10:30 PM, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > It might be a good fit for extending git; I wouldn't be very surprised if > that worked. However, I do have concerns about the "Oh, we'll just > lash together a binding to C" attitude common among lua programmers; I > foresee maintainability problems and the possibility of slow death by > low-level details as that strategy tries to scale up. I think this is quite a prediction? Could you give an example scenario? How would another language (e.g. Python) mitigate this? > And, of course, one problem with calling back into C a lot is that > you walk back into C's resource-management issues. C resource management can be effectively dealt with by relying on Lua's GC to track C resources via userdata. > My sense is that git's use cases are better served by a glue language > in the Python/Perl/Ruby class rather than an extension langage. But > my mind is open on this issue. I don't see how these languages are more appropriate based on your concerns. -- - Patrick Donnelly