Re: Generalised bisection

[John Tapsell <johnflux@gmail.com>]

2009/3/11 Ealdwulf Wuffinga <ealdwulf@googlemail.com>:
> On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 7:08 AM, Christian Couder
> <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> wrote:
>
>> I will try to have a look at the end of this week.
>> But do you want it to be integrated with Git or do you want it to be an
>> independant project that works with many different version control system?
>
> Hmm. Whatever works, I guess. On the one hand the code does seem
> naturally generic. On the other hand, it's good if users don't
> have to separately obtain an extra package to use it. Supposing that
> the algorithm proves useful, would the git project  be okay with an
> extra dependency, or would you want to integrate it? Right now it's in
> python, which I understand is an obstacle to integration.

There used to be a dependency on python.  git-merge-recursive for
example, before it was converted to C.

mpmath might be the more annoying dependency - what functions do you
use from it?  Could they trivially be reimplemented?

John Tapsell