From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Tapsell Subject: Re: Generalised bisection Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 09:35:37 +0000 Message-ID: <43d8ce650903110235q5e2a59f6t201d5e65a4937476@mail.gmail.com> References: <200903100808.15875.chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Christian Couder , Git List , Ingo Molnar To: Ealdwulf Wuffinga X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Mar 11 10:37:10 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LhKs8-0005yV-E7 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 11 Mar 2009 10:37:08 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752533AbZCKJfk convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Mar 2009 05:35:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752525AbZCKJfj (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Mar 2009 05:35:39 -0400 Received: from wf-out-1314.google.com ([209.85.200.175]:19474 "EHLO wf-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752484AbZCKJfj convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Mar 2009 05:35:39 -0400 Received: by wf-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 28so3122203wfa.4 for ; Wed, 11 Mar 2009 02:35:37 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=EQNteG1h0PzT2cUv8lrbSfRic3q5u2iEduZLFq4KpKY=; b=LXZ89Gg/UNm7VBU/6HXJK7Kks6phf/almyQv28kW8OZ4PMzpGBHO+peubdNfd5dghL GxdVfCvRDc8g7hErpaOx7WYm/LcqVeaIWLQdbpD/IMPxxCUg9waBDhT66ZPs0z9ch1ig 1XWl9Ef1WAsEx90ktHI3aosa2YHCZT28QsqsY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=jDUi4z/8xiWYDj9gRbh1wjYUarBHtoCXHGVEgaeAOqKmUnDaB6PEkhA/m53Y5p4h3V +ZH+AAcmGmYfcMfzAfA9psrB2PoQq5R3GE0uPBzruckK12ux1FlkZQ/AXjhcYnI5VtU7 P8vE096T/GkwFGZLT1uiRwQAdHrvLUZCLxWYg= Received: by 10.142.113.19 with SMTP id l19mr3596993wfc.10.1236764137363; Wed, 11 Mar 2009 02:35:37 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 2009/3/11 Ealdwulf Wuffinga : > On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 7:08 AM, Christian Couder > 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 s= ystem? > > 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 =C2=A0be okay with= an > extra dependency, or would you want to integrate it? Right now it's i= n > 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