Re: NYU Open Source Programming Class Releases JavaGit API 0.1.0 Alpha

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Aug 4, 2008, 23:36 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0808050127510.9611@pacific.mpi-cbg.de.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <20080804175403.GG27666@spearce.org>

Hi,

On Mon, 4 Aug 2008, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:

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> James Linder <james.h.linder@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Jgit/Egit, on the other hand, appear to be tightly integrated with 
> > Jgit primarily supporting Egit.
> 
> That's not really true.

I started using jgit in a project that is not yet totally public. It is awesome. (I mean jgit is awesome, even if my project does make me happy, too.)

And I absolutely share the puzzlement of Shawn why anybody would try to do their own thing in Java, instead of contributing to jgit.

Especially the fact that "JavaGit" seems to repeat the all-to-obvious error of Eclipse: to make a platform-independent library that depends on platform dependent components.

I find that kind of thinking so strange, to the point that I am really amazed enough to want to analyze the brain of the people inventing such things.

But hey, maybe there is a deeper point in it that escapes me.

Ciao, Dscho