From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Subject: Re: libgit2 status Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2012 13:49:19 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87a9xkqtfg.fsf@waller.obbligato.org> <5038A148.4020003@op5.se> <7vharpv77n.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vfw78s1kd.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: Andreas Ericsson , , To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Aug 27 20:49:47 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1T64Nc-0000r0-IF for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Mon, 27 Aug 2012 20:49:44 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753861Ab2H0St3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Aug 2012 14:49:29 -0400 Received: from exprod6og107.obsmtp.com ([64.18.1.208]:52129 "EHLO exprod6og107.obsmtp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750971Ab2H0St0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Aug 2012 14:49:26 -0400 Received: from CFWEX01.americas.cray.com ([136.162.34.11]) (using TLSv1) by exprod6ob107.postini.com ([64.18.5.12]) with SMTP ID DSNKUDvBMqO5kkg1XrLTJRNCgkTgJID6fWrY@postini.com; Mon, 27 Aug 2012 11:49:26 PDT Received: from transit.us.cray.com (172.31.17.53) by CFWEX01.americas.cray.com (172.30.88.25) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 14.2.318.1; Mon, 27 Aug 2012 13:49:20 -0500 In-Reply-To: <7vfw78s1kd.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (Junio C. Hamano's message of "Mon, 27 Aug 2012 10:10:42 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.1 (gnu/linux) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Junio C Hamano writes: >> I would be happy to be a guinea pig for libgit2 in order to improve it, >> but I don't want to significantly impact git-subtree's move to core. >> I'll have to figure out the right balance there given feedback. > > I expect it will take some time for libgit2 to allow our Makefile to > start saying "LDFLAGS += -libgit2"; it will need to become as stable > and widespread as other libraries we depend on, e.g. -lz and -lcurl. Well that's a chicken-and-egg problem, isn't it. How will a library become widespread unless something uses it? Would it be enough to have libgit2 as an installable package in the major distributions? -Dave