Re: linking libgit.a in C++ projects

[Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 02:53:37AM -0700, cte wrote:
> I'm writing a git gui for OS X using cocoa/Objective-C++, and rather
> than being lame and parsing the output the various git commands, I'm
> using libgit.a to provide all of the needed functionality for my app.

Don't do that! libgit.a is an internal library used solely to build
git binaries. It means that its interface can be cahnged at any time.
Though, there is an idea of creating the real git library that other
applications can use, but AFAIK no one is working on it. So parsing
output is the only correct solution right now. In fact, it is not
difficult to do, because most plumbing commands are rather flexibly
in what they output and how.

> However, the git source uses a few reserved C++ keywords; namely
> 'typename', and 'new'.

Because this source code are meant to be compiled by C and not by C++!
Even if we will have real git library for other applications to use,
it still be compiled only by C. Thus, C++ keywords are not issue.

Dmitry