From: Sverre Rabbelier Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 08:35:22 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] tests: handle NO_PYTHON setting Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <7v4oocwh5o.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Heya, On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 09:28, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Sverre Rabbelier writes: >> I don't think that's true, git.git currently does not have such a >> structure (everything is just dumped in the root directory). The only >> reason git_remote_helpers exists is to make it easier to create a >> python egg out of it and install that. > > If that is the case, shouldn't each of the helper written in Python need > to have a separate directory, not just a single git_remote_helpers > directory shared among them? I don't understand why that would be needed? The reason we added a single git_remote_helpers directory is because we wanted to share common code, having a single python package makes that easy. -- Cheers, Sverre Rabbelier