From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Tapsell Subject: Re: Generalised bisection Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 12:08:10 +0000 Message-ID: <43d8ce650903110508o3d12f32m8202fae750d215a@mail.gmail.com> References: <200903100808.15875.chriscool@tuxfamily.org> <43d8ce650903110235q5e2a59f6t201d5e65a4937476@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Ealdwulf Wuffinga , Christian Couder , Git List , Ingo Molnar To: Johannes Schindelin X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Mar 11 13:09:42 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 1LhNFl-0004fO-F0 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 11 Mar 2009 13:09:41 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754987AbZCKMIM convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Mar 2009 08:08:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754855AbZCKMIM (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Mar 2009 08:08:12 -0400 Received: from wf-out-1314.google.com ([209.85.200.168]:52414 "EHLO wf-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754626AbZCKMIM convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Mar 2009 08:08:12 -0400 Received: by wf-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 28so3179341wfa.4 for ; Wed, 11 Mar 2009 05:08:10 -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=kSFZ9L5B07OHy51M1JHKrjR2vAL7J7dJJwhdFIztyFE=; b=CzCLoVkdSdmtm657wqgnqgu9e+ho7cE7EuwWTMgbUeynVuMRjgbzjg0jg0aEUS9dLz 8/FQZdAwheepvmAE2ScsR42Fn49bxJDofJxLEgIcVK/EWdIxcCRJzbjLodooZ9vDQWvt dh05zVwaaqUeFJQgQInz6xmGPhh+EomPPZTT4= 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=Hydq3S+ry+O1KmJOHPfw0hSjB9e0vaV8bh6UnywIiFULQgvaTloYy3+csI0eDCgO0d lIgTpRsA18dMUETWk5HhukQ8pgQ65NNSMYJvtikB+VrNiAJZnmB1iZlVsNZNfuwF4pML cegJrcPG1q0azlkVLF8w3Oo0Fd1z3D3ArSE3Y= Received: by 10.142.105.13 with SMTP id d13mr3644878wfc.196.1236773290368; Wed, 11 Mar 2009 05:08:10 -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 Johannes Schindelin : > Hi, > > On Wed, 11 Mar 2009, John Tapsell wrote: > >> 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 contro= l 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 th= at >> > the algorithm proves useful, would the git project =C2=A0be okay w= ith 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. =C2=A0git-merge-recursive f= or >> example, before it was converted to C. > > Not "for example". =C2=A0It was the only dependency of git.git on Pyt= hon, 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