From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Petr Baudis Subject: Re: Libification project (SoC) Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 13:55:29 +0100 Message-ID: <20070316125529.GD4489@pasky.or.cz> References: <20070316042406.7e750ed0@home.brethil> <20070316045928.GB31606@spearce.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: "Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino" , git@vger.kernel.org To: "Shawn O. Pearce" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Mar 16 13:55:39 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HSBy3-00066M-0B for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Fri, 16 Mar 2007 13:55:35 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933618AbXCPMzb (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Mar 2007 08:55:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933629AbXCPMzb (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Mar 2007 08:55:31 -0400 Received: from w241.dkm.cz ([62.24.88.241]:33487 "EHLO machine.or.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933618AbXCPMza (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Mar 2007 08:55:30 -0400 Received: (qmail 23498 invoked by uid 2001); 16 Mar 2007 13:55:29 +0100 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070316045928.GB31606@spearce.org> X-message-flag: Outlook : A program to spread viri, but it can do mail too. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 05:59:28AM CET, Shawn O. Pearce wrote: > "Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino" wrote: > > 3. I don't code in Perl, is it a problem? I mean, the project's > > goal is to have a Perl binding but I think it goes far from > > that: we could have a python module, a C program, or anything > > that shows the libgit is useful. > > No, I don't see that as a problem at all. We have some Perl > experts on the mailing list who would like to see Perl bindings. > Some of the Perl binding is pure C code, and some if it is this > weird Perl macro language... so I expect those Perl experts to come > out of the woodwork and help the community to create a prototype > set of bindings. There's also Ruby and Python interests around, > so we may see bindings for those too. ;-) I'll add perl binding as soon as libgit part is there; the infrastructure is already in place (not now but it's in git history, you just have to dig it out), so it should be pretty easy too; so even if I wouldn't, someone surely will. ;-) I don't think knowing Perl or moreover the Perl XS horrors should be a prerequisite for this project. -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/ Ever try. Ever fail. No matter. // Try again. Fail again. Fail better. -- Samuel Beckett