Re: js/scalar, was Re: What's cooking in git.git (Oct 2021, #05; Mon, 18)

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Oct 22, 2021, 15:55 UTC
Message-ID: <nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.2110221734530.62@tvgsbejvaqbjf.bet>
In-Reply-To: <211022.868rylkuw7.gmgdl@evledraar.gmail.com>

Hi Ævar,

On Fri, 22 Oct 2021, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 21 2021, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>
> > tl;dr it isn't worth your nor my time for you to focus on the build
> > process in contrib/scalar/ at this moment.

I still stand by these words, and I think you completely glanced over this problem. Your focus seems to lie exclusively on those "dependency problems". But apart from you, who cares if `libgit.a` is not rebuilt in obscure and rare circumstances _when building something in `contrib/`_? The code in `contrib/scalar/` is transitional.

Just forget about Scalar's build process. Forget about getting its CI to work. I have all that figured out already. It is all working as well as needed.

> > Having said that, I do appreciate your interest in this patch series, and
> > I have suggestions at the end of this mail how we could collaborate on it
> > in a more fruitful manner.

I would still like to invite you to think along more productive lines. It's not about where Scalar's build mechanics are right now. It's where we can take _Git_ to do what Scalar already does.

Ciao, Dscho

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> [... skipping a lot of talk about "fixing" the build problems that I do
> not consider problems at all at this stage, and probably also not later
> because I want Scalar _not_ to be integrated more closely into Git's
> build process as I have pointed out multiple times even while you are
> continuously trying to push for the exact opposite of that and I am
> starting to feel a bit unheard...]