From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jakub Narebski Subject: Re: Are C++ contributions welcome? Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 07:16:06 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <4c88165dd0077363a30b4f98fed16c2f@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: jose maria gomez vergara X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Jun 20 16:17:18 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 1K9hQT-0007Ot-5l for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:17:17 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755941AbYFTOQK (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jun 2008 10:16:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755866AbYFTOQJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jun 2008 10:16:09 -0400 Received: from an-out-0708.google.com ([209.85.132.242]:43304 "EHLO an-out-0708.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755375AbYFTOQI (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jun 2008 10:16:08 -0400 Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id d40so289769and.103 for ; Fri, 20 Jun 2008 07:16:07 -0700 (PDT) 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=7COw1DYyRqNgAFarbZdCQRsT93PGjML0nNST19IqTqQ=; b=tNlvAWrXaHxTe/Uv35KTFDNlbFNDH+HzLfokVCmqhVeOzipXFO0/4aBpISxCMp64wh eQKdNMy4fVEtPe75sdunOW1DiR0Fddt6AxDPt1nNqhfeBAInAqNjvUEpp+M2w09qRPAs rPmhcyXxmbFEFbDvnaZ9odrLGLjOYdp0B5VSA= 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=p/18T+1yAvNi7Qg4nsYT91f98emdV+RwoJLhYLfqbYxEXlBulV+EPaut3ziboGms2x XC3gHZzBqzp8Rz2x4bx+ZOIbL01+xisuWMdRGoTZQHT1erQzPOuaRSVsZe5s6hpZUYGI szmiHo7gqsx+KjMeZl1GdoSlrTyYFFpgrtFV8= Received: by 10.100.139.20 with SMTP id m20mr5551555and.135.1213971367218; Fri, 20 Jun 2008 07:16:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.localdomain ( [83.8.208.51]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id c78sm1474841hsa.12.2008.06.20.07.16.04 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 20 Jun 2008 07:16:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id m5KEFeK1007410; Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:15:45 +0200 Received: (from jnareb@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) id m5KEFLWZ007406; Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:15:21 +0200 X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.localdomain: jnareb set sender to jnareb@gmail.com using -f In-Reply-To: <4c88165dd0077363a30b4f98fed16c2f@localhost> 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: Jose Maria Gomez Vergara writes: > I think Git is a really good project and I would like to contribute to it. > I have been having a look to the source and I have realized on that all > code is C (well and Perl for some scripts and so..). I know that C++ code > was not welcome sometime ago, but I don't know if this have changed. > > I don't feel comfortable programing in C and I prefer C++ only because I > have more experience using this one. May I contribute to this project in > that language?. I don't think that C++ would get accepted because it would introduce another dependency; if not runtime dependency (libstdc++), then build requirement (C++ compiler). And I think it doesn't bring much: git is not some GUI application where OOP works best; it is 'close to the metal' (performance), where I think C works best. -- Jakub Narebski Poland ShadeHawk on #git