Re: Libification project (SoC)

["Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino" <lcapitulino@mandriva.com.br>]

Em Fri, 16 Mar 2007 15:08:55 +0100
Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> escreveu:

| On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 02:47:15PM CET, Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino wrote:
| >  We could start by fixing the got-an-error-die behaivor and
| > define a _experimental_ API (just a few functions) just to get
| > data out of git.
| > 
| >  This would be enough to write the Perl binding I think?
| 
| Actually, well, I've already done this. :-)

 Not exactly, at least not the way I think it should be done.

| The trouble begins when you want to access multiple repositories from
| the same process, etc. Without that, writing the Perl binding is
| trivial; there's already a hook the binding can use to catch dies, I've
| added it.
| 
| So, the main point of the work is to define a _good_ API and get rid of
| the static state, I guess.

 Yes, the set_*_routine()s seems a workaround to me, you're only fixing
die()'s final effect.

 I think the right solution is to get rid of die() from functions that
are supposed to be an interface, set errno if needed and return -1
or NULL.

 That looks a lot of work BTW, but I'll be pleased to work on it.

 Is there more things like the set_*_routine()s added to fix
other problems?

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Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino