From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 12:05:48 GMT
Subject: Re: Generalised bisection
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0903111304520.10279@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <43d8ce650903110235q5e2a59f6t201d5e65a4937476@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Wed, 11 Mar 2009, John Tapsell wrote:

> 2009/3/11 Ealdwulf Wuffinga <ealdwulf@googlemail.com>:
> > On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 7:08 AM, Christian Couder
> > <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> wrote:
> >
> >> I will try to have a look at the end of this week.
> >> But do you want it to be integrated with Git or do you want it to be an
> >> independant project that works with many different version control system?
> >
> > Hmm. Whatever works, I guess. On the one hand the code does seem
> > naturally generic. On the other hand, it's good if users don't
> > have to separately obtain an extra package to use it. Supposing that
> > the algorithm proves useful, would the git project  be okay with an
> > extra dependency, or would you want to integrate it? Right now it's in
> > python, which I understand is an obstacle to integration.
> 
> There used to be a dependency on python.  git-merge-recursive for
> example, before it was converted to C.

Not "for example".  It was the only dependency of git.git on Python, and 
the rewrite of merge-recursive was only done to break that dependency, as 
I had a platform where I could not install Python.

Ciao,
Dscho