From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jon Seymour Subject: Core and Not-So Core Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 03:51:40 +1000 Message-ID: <2cfc403205051010514cf183e2@mail.gmail.com> References: <2cfc40320505100800426d38ca@mail.gmail.com> <1115739511.16187.432.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com> <2cfc4032050510092238259b63@mail.gmail.com> <1115744609.16187.455.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com> <2cfc403205051010151304d88a@mail.gmail.com> <2cfc4032050510101553d391b2@mail.gmail.com> <1115745912.16187.468.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com> <2cfc4032050510103664ebef28@mail.gmail.com> <20050510174150.GA2072@infradead.org> <2cfc40320505101051207c9ce4@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: jon@blackcubes.dyndns.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue May 10 19:45:36 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DVYmt-0006J5-A7 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 10 May 2005 19:44:55 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261716AbVEJRv5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 May 2005 13:51:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261717AbVEJRv5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 May 2005 13:51:57 -0400 Received: from rproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.170.202]:19499 "EHLO rproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261716AbVEJRvl convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 May 2005 13:51:41 -0400 Received: by rproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id j1so898028rnf for ; Tue, 10 May 2005 10:51:41 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=AoqYhFip4U2FI644jP67mqEDf7z0ZPBWO0+TKnCX2DVye7ijymv6uN07sNK/M/RYWDoQL/r1iKQW15mwSyuLJWIF9f0s17te3k49L/U9DDxQH48oZ7b9vEu8IXTRmg8GK+GvjA7LipsIBz47UGJ+49h2OZ//bXvgRo6c65TmC7w= Received: by 10.38.65.25 with SMTP id n25mr2088575rna; Tue, 10 May 2005 10:51:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.38.104.59 with HTTP; Tue, 10 May 2005 10:51:40 -0700 (PDT) To: Git Mailing List In-Reply-To: <2cfc40320505101051207c9ce4@mail.gmail.com> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On 5/11/05, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 03:36:29AM +1000, Jon Seymour wrote: > > I have already explained all the pragmatic reasons for doing a GIT > > implementation in Java but you are prepared to ignore all of those > > reasons. You have ignored all these reasons rather than lift a finger > > to compose a well-reasoned rebuttal. > > You tried to argue for re-inventing the wheel. Fortunately you are > allowed to reinvent the wheel here (which isn't given anymore these > days). Just don't expect any support from people who have been burnt > by that before. And the Java world is re-inventing the wheel far to > often - I suspect that'll be cured when the community gets more mature > in a few years.. > I am _not_ re-inventing any wheel. Merely building a road through different territory upon which the GIT wheel may roll more freely. Don't get me wrong. I appreciate the UNIX mindset of building small tools and composing them freely. But the UNIX way isn't the only way to interact with the world and it is being hopelessly dogmatic to insist otherwise. jon. -- homepage: http://www.zeta.org.au/~jon/ blog: http://orwelliantremors.blogspot.com/