Re: status of libgit.a

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Mar 7, 2010, 16:36 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.1003071733440.7596@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <1267957655.3759.29.camel@mattotaupa>

Hi,

On Sun, 7 Mar 2010, Paul Menzel wrote:

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> Am Donnerstag, den 19.02.2009, 09:24 +0000 schrieb Gerrit Pape:
> > On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 09:10:02AM -0800, Marc Oscar Singer wrote:
> > > Gerrit Pape wrote:
> 
> […]
> 
> > > >It depends on upstream.  Back then, Junio asked to not provide such 
> > > >a library package in Debian, and I respect that.  There've been 
> > > >some plans and effort to stabilize the lib in the past, but I'm not 
> > > >sure about the status.
> > > >  
> > > Would it be a compromise to provide libgit.a as a static library for 
> > > until it stabilizes?
> > 
> > That's not the compromise, that's the option, I don't know any plans 
> > about a shared library.  The git-core-dev package that was available 
> > for short included such a static library.
> > 
> > You really need to talk to upstream if you want this libgit.a.
> 
> could you please give an update on the status of libgit.a.

There had been some people who worked towards a re-entrant libgit.a (read: non-die()ing in library functions). But there were too many others, so that effort stopped.

The most likely route for people needing libgit.a would be libgit2:

http://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/SoC2010Ideas#Complete_libgit2

> For example cgit still could not be packaged yet for Debian [1] because 
> of this bug [2].

cgit should not depend on libgit.a, as it is linked statically anyway.

Ciao, Dscho