Re: [RFD] Libification proposal: separate internal and external interfaces

From: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Date: Apr 9, 2024, 00:35 UTC
Message-ID: <ZhSNPTiaPbfekOrJ@tapette.crustytoothpaste.net>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqr0ff8rwo.fsf@gitster.g>

On 2024-04-08 at 21:29:27, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> I thought one of the yardstick to gauge the success of this
> "libification" effort, if not the purpose of this effort, is to
> allow Git to be its first client.
> 
> I am not sure how it would supposed to work.  Unless you are giving
> parallel implementations of "main Git binaries", one with the native
> code and the other replaced the native code with thin wrappers
> around the library calls, that is.

I think the plan as proposed in the original file was to have an internal and external library and to have the binaries use the internal library. However, perhaps I misunderstood the proposal, in which case clarification on the part of the proposers would be helpful.

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brian m. carlson (they/them or he/him)
Toronto, Ontario, CA