Re: Generalised bisection

[John Tapsell <johnflux@gmail.com>]

2009/3/11 Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, 11 Mar 2009, John Tapsell wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> Not "for example".  It was the only dependency of git.git on Python, and
> the rewrite of merge-recursive was only done to break that dependency, as
> I had a platform where I could not install Python.

But installing perl was no problem?  (Just curious)

John