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Re: linking libgit.a in C++ projects

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SFSteve Frécinaux <nudrema@gmail.com>
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Aug 4, 2008, 14:52 UTC
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On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 11:58 PM, Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:
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>> Especially since that'd mean that integrating it into other languages
>> (by means of wrappers), such as Python or Ruby, becomes a lot easier.
>
> I'm going to be shot for saying this, but both Python and Ruby
> have implementations that run on the JVM.  So does Git.  Want
> to use Git and Python?  Use JGit and Jython.  :)

There is also the "stores" branch from pygit [1] that implements pack and object reading natively in python. Anyway implementing more than that (ie, packing and such things) natively is clearly harder and takes more work for less efficiency than making bindings around a libified git...

[1] http://code.istique.net/?p=pygit.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/stores Don't mind the 50X error, just refresh... broken server.

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