Re: GLib

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: May 15, 2011, 18:06 UTC
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Zganyaiko Dmitry <zdo.str@gmail.com> writes:

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> My question is very simple:
> why git doesn't use glib as base C framework? For example, in git there
> are xmalloc, xrealloc functions that duplicates glib functionality, and
> these routines are only small piece of all duplicated code that already
> exists in glib.
> 
> So, why git was designed and is developing now without mature stable C
> library like glib?

Note that git is very performance conscious. For example a while ago some of git commands were split off from /usr/libexec/git-core/git so that only those need to link against libcurl (if I remember it correctly).

Besides it all started very simple, with a few wrappers: git developers thought that requiring GLib is overkill for those few wrappers. strbuf, parseopt etc. it all came later.

At least it is what I think (what I guess).

BTW how portable GLib is?

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Jakub Narebski
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