Re: [Administrivia] On ruby and contrib/

> On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 11:22 PM, Johannes Schindelin
> <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> > Hi Greg,
> >
> > On Thu, 6 Jun 2013, Greg Troxel wrote:
> >
> >> As one of the people who helps maintain git packages in pkgsrc, my
> >> initial reaction is negative to adding a ruby dependency.
> >
> > My initial reaction, too. It was hard enough to get Perl included with Git
> > for Windows (because of that pesky Subversion dependency).
> >
> > As you can see from the commit history, I was the primary force behind
> > trying to get everything "core" in Git away from requiring scripting
> > languages (I think it is an awesome thing to provide APIs for as many
> > languages as possible, but a not-so-cool thing to use more than one
> > language in the core code). It does not seem that anybody picked up that
> > task when I left, though.
> 
> Nobody seems to mention it yet. There's another reason behind the C
> rewrite effort: fork is costly on Windows. The C rewrite allows us to
> run with one process (most of the time). This applies for shell, perl
> and even ruby scripts because libgit.a is never meant to be used
> outside git.c context (unlike libgit2). In this regard, ruby is just
> as bad as currently supported non-C languages.