From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jakub Narebski Subject: Re: [RFC] Git Perl bindings, and OO interface Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2008 06:50:38 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: References: <200811270258.50898.jnareb@gmail.com> <200811301445.18969.nadim@khemir.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: nadim khemir X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Nov 30 15:52:35 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1L6nf0-0005NG-Tz for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sun, 30 Nov 2008 15:52:35 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751937AbYK3Oum (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Nov 2008 09:50:42 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751912AbYK3Oum (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Nov 2008 09:50:42 -0500 Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.187]:54889 "EHLO nf-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751706AbYK3Oul (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Nov 2008 09:50:41 -0500 Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id d3so1089922nfc.21 for ; Sun, 30 Nov 2008 06:50:39 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:received:received :x-authentication-warning:to:cc:subject:references:from:in-reply-to :message-id:lines:user-agent:mime-version:content-type:date; bh=2sn4kgYIGOWGNrz7JMmPQ4wPI6gnoKVZwfbwrOeOBn4=; b=VaH6faUZD48GQV9dvDn9nf0A/Z9CmgZOqurs+9p5IkQQVWPAlW0XMbD2A/rOAYW8Da dnmiwwl/04/J8tGwq+2PMLCYaEQPUrdUHpF9yKLmWtFJQdfsC4jH81BJygwDcsfnm00g aBjDGHmyxR4YVwsYiw4RE6anV8iy/Ku5EjCJo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=x-authentication-warning:to:cc:subject:references:from:in-reply-to :message-id:lines:user-agent:mime-version:content-type:date; b=Kq/KeO5jR+WoJi2i76jx/z8u++z3zvu2oCEHz4dTTF+qXcyL/RBRCoAiYkmSRLD0E5 G8Qmpk8h+SQbAYXnmkKfTz607cxHyIbdaZuoYuCtHKy6UuEGktNpPUH6+gPGAEAPBuFT 4h8kkS9+wikRYAlB49vdVSnF0K+r3b1Q+N/gY= Received: by 10.210.27.20 with SMTP id a20mr11466891eba.138.1228056639568; Sun, 30 Nov 2008 06:50:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.localdomain (abvs96.neoplus.adsl.tpnet.pl [83.8.216.96]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 3sm7927522eyj.51.2008.11.30.06.50.37 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 30 Nov 2008 06:50:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id mAUEo4lE001730; Sun, 30 Nov 2008 15:50:15 +0100 Received: (from jnareb@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) id mAUEnrYX001718; Sun, 30 Nov 2008 15:49:53 +0100 X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.localdomain: jnareb set sender to jnareb@gmail.com using -f In-Reply-To: <200811301445.18969.nadim@khemir.net> User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: nadim khemir writes: > On Thursday 27 November 2008 02.58.49 Jakub Narebski wrote: > > ... > > > > 7. Git::Refs > > > > It is meant to represent references, mainly branches, and be filled > > using git-for-each-ref... and for example used for ref markers. > > > > There are probably a few things I have forgot about... > > Thank you for writing the RFC, it's a very good start. I would like to see > some strategy for libgit[2] in the RFC. What is your opinion about that? I do not know enought about libgit2 or even git unofficial internal C API to talk about it. I did not plan for Perl interface to be actual Perl bindings, using libgit2. Please remember that earlier effort of using XS (Perl <-> C interface) failed because it relied on GCC support for -fPIC and was not sufficiently portable... if I remember it correctly. Calling Git commands and massaging output would be enough for me. -- Jakub Narebski Poland ShadeHawk on #git