From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: A Large Angry SCM Subject: Re: NYU Open Source Programming Class Releases JavaGit API 0.1.0 Alpha Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2008 20:03:58 -0400 Message-ID: <489798EE.7050402@gmail.com> References: <5dfc0b810808040948x6cd1f29fhaf2bf85a09cfd404@mail.gmail.com> <20080804175403.GG27666@spearce.org> Reply-To: gitzilla@gmail.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Shawn O. Pearce" , James Linder , git@vger.kernel.org To: Johannes Schindelin X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Aug 05 02:05:48 2008 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 1KQA33-0003DP-GQ for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 05 Aug 2008 02:05:35 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756222AbYHEAEF (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Aug 2008 20:04:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756031AbYHEAEE (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Aug 2008 20:04:04 -0400 Received: from yw-out-2324.google.com ([74.125.46.31]:11032 "EHLO yw-out-2324.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754339AbYHEAEC (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Aug 2008 20:04:02 -0400 Received: by yw-out-2324.google.com with SMTP id 9so1312185ywe.1 for ; Mon, 04 Aug 2008 17:04:00 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id :disposition-notification-to:date:from:reply-to:user-agent :mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=zyV/5dYH9t+7nbl0cHIUZRIJHmCZbKkadSW802le5Zg=; b=uCuCIn7NvUteMU2UKxc593yh4Jludhr/IfAp1AOJxOpr0o9j5ibMbuBdCglXttv214 pj3ssI/prjkVYh2qdQz5hWoDzaoDCF9RfYYWaqRhg1u3Xe+vXGEbecBjzzi4sB0yc9iA 9EuGTWX6OkAJtUWRZ2zhejmX63o6NjaO3c1Kk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:disposition-notification-to:date:from:reply-to :user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=wo+H9WQC9RdbTKYi6IVlxh0S1ACHwJ5f/AKUXuDOF6jVIY/SCjkH/Lm79BkqpL7pP1 jZIF75Yn3rdW/FoRWNN/mEFIDy/KW9EbML9do7/WiV9A60b2iZkCa6oL7XdRKXm9lLAt pB0l7Y/p5JnBgbj8E/NpfV1Np5/LZmUt39mI4= Received: by 10.150.11.14 with SMTP id 14mr340617ybk.109.1217894640406; Mon, 04 Aug 2008 17:04:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?10.0.0.6? ( [66.177.19.100]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 9sm800067yxs.5.2008.08.04.17.03.59 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 04 Aug 2008 17:03:59 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20060911) In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Johannes Schindelin wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, 4 Aug 2008, Shawn O. Pearce wrote: > >> James Linder wrote: >> >>> Jgit/Egit, on the other hand, appear to be tightly integrated with >>> Jgit primarily supporting Egit. >> That's not really true. > > I started using jgit in a project that is not yet totally public. It is > awesome. (I mean jgit is awesome, even if my project does make me happy, > too.) > > And I absolutely share the puzzlement of Shawn why anybody would try to do > their own thing in Java, instead of contributing to jgit. > > Especially the fact that "JavaGit" seems to repeat the all-to-obvious > error of Eclipse: to make a platform-independent library that depends on > platform dependent components. > > I find that kind of thinking so strange, to the point that I am really > amazed enough to want to analyze the brain of the people inventing such > things. > > But hey, maybe there is a deeper point in it that escapes me. You mean like "Why is a project with the goal of bringing the power of git to Java developers hosted in svn instead of git"?