From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jonathan Nieder Subject: Re: Dependency query regarding contrib scripts Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2015 12:52:04 -0800 Message-ID: <20151201205204.GE18255@google.com> References: <20151201165209.GA28230@salo> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Richard Ipsum X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Dec 01 21:52:21 2015 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 1a3ruO-0005oX-LC for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Dec 2015 21:52:21 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756877AbbLAUwN convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Dec 2015 15:52:13 -0500 Received: from mail-pa0-f53.google.com ([209.85.220.53]:34963 "EHLO mail-pa0-f53.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756807AbbLAUwH (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Dec 2015 15:52:07 -0500 Received: by pacej9 with SMTP id ej9so16302180pac.2 for ; Tue, 01 Dec 2015 12:52:06 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:content-transfer-encoding :in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=OWhAmLb5l92xEV+IwOIPhpTZVZto1oJbDArysyQc+lY=; b=dOiSNKOAeLuT4yKpVNIlEOKdER+d6FwjVRCgs8DHp1xTdiA6FeG19/WIp9HF0Sy/QM TDozyuCye8GWBVHYwF3XABGtPRgzDaLNVnSd/lhn7iar60QrsTU0qtesTLqsMsfF6d3U 60/8Eu8cSD5W+1m09yt7TBHxCATrMFMFsILBKdZ7K6ozRFKhPhHkGtsa6uOKxjATXFbA /Yqe4MuZq5ki0R5ZPvm2FoS5GFNLTJMawgk2Nd2zf/cn19qAJWGCrPjNAAoW6Njeft74 mdiNBgAtQX5pyb/dVju8WYIlbUvgHdOPjdVTEnF1f3awO6VPCGX0moJ+Kierf6nLrW8q 77gA== X-Received: by 10.98.18.194 with SMTP id 63mr83215292pfs.43.1449003126843; Tue, 01 Dec 2015 12:52:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from google.com ([2620:0:1000:5b00:5d66:f78a:ca3a:530b]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id a27sm59732605pfj.36.2015.12.01.12.52.05 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 01 Dec 2015 12:52:05 -0800 (PST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20151201165209.GA28230@salo> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Richard Ipsum wrote: > Having read the docs for integrating new subcommands into git[1] I am= looking > for some clarification of the following, > > "While we strongly encourage coding in portable C for portability, > these [C, shell, perl] specific scripting languages are also acceptab= le. > We won=E2=80=99t accept more without a very strong technical case, > as we don=E2=80=99t want to broaden the Git suite=E2=80=99s required = dependencies" > > Does this also mean that use of non-core modules by, for example, per= l scripts, > is out of the question for contrib scripts? Or is it acceptable but i= deally > minimised? > > In particular I'd like to be able to make use of Git::Raw[2] and also= ideally > the Moo framework[3]. contrib is its own world. Your best bet is to ask the maintainer of the relevant contrib script what kind of portability they require (cc-ing this list). If you are the maintainer, then go wild. ;-) Thanks, Jonathan > [2]: http://search.cpan.org/~jacquesg/Git-Raw-0.58/lib/Git/Raw.pm > [3]: http://search.cpan.org/~haarg/Moo-2.000002/lib/Moo.pm