Re: libgit2 status

From: dag@cray.com <dag@cray.com>
Date: Aug 27, 2012, 18:49 UTC
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

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>> I would be happy to be a guinea pig for libgit2 in order to improve it,
>> but I don't want to significantly impact git-subtree's move to core.
>> I'll have to figure out the right balance there given feedback.
>
> I expect it will take some time for libgit2 to allow our Makefile to
> start saying "LDFLAGS += -libgit2"; it will need to become as stable
> and widespread as other libraries we depend on, e.g. -lz and -lcurl.

Well that's a chicken-and-egg problem, isn't it. How will a library become widespread unless something uses it?

Would it be enough to have libgit2 as an installable package in the major distributions?

                                 -Dave