From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: libgit2 status Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2012 12:44:07 -0700 Message-ID: <7v6284qfw8.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <87a9xkqtfg.fsf@waller.obbligato.org> <5038A148.4020003@op5.se> <7vharpv77n.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vfw78s1kd.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Andreas Ericsson , , To: X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Aug 27 21:44:26 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1T65EP-0003IP-UH for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Mon, 27 Aug 2012 21:44:18 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754186Ab2H0ToL (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Aug 2012 15:44:11 -0400 Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.35]:51505 "EHLO smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753602Ab2H0ToL (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Aug 2012 15:44:11 -0400 Received: from smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E85339883; Mon, 27 Aug 2012 15:44:09 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=K6zV6R/ZHCoVG7DED75WLDb6xo0=; b=cwvZ6y SlB0BTQuuZxr/W6+ecpUohmLqFlAjLqf+F0mdGlIDbLIV218RrReIwLI+BtO8I/B YzwpQLpLAK102rL1y3wWvshayUrv6ddbw5cUdj9qvlbBjuUzrj4F2jd7ph0WQ+Z1 iXVWoS4NQ+8BQDgaKtXZD/aONMVzZjSRkphMU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=wyzkU/+XYIXCM+CgT8M6/cMsulfJIQvo Ad7AxJnXGIWgCYn+n9pXkAjvtojcxScKqGArhaVacBUwehXwkj1tsQ54NU3gfNol 9eUgqrbSsEEVQ+Yk80oazAKaJYYg1zMc9oty0J1miNtzpDEkotT5OOKeZMoTteUp CypvmaKPW5k= Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5F0E9882; Mon, 27 Aug 2012 15:44:09 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [98.234.214.94]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 534589881; Mon, 27 Aug 2012 15:44:09 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (dag@cray.com's message of "Mon, 27 Aug 2012 13:49:19 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 91AED820-F07F-11E1-AA60-BAB72E706CDE-77302942!b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: writes: > Junio C Hamano writes: > >>> I would be happy to be a guinea pig for libgit2 in order to improve it, >>> but I don't want to significantly impact git-subtree's move to core. >>> I'll have to figure out the right balance there given feedback. >> >> I expect it will take some time for libgit2 to allow our Makefile to >> start saying "LDFLAGS += -libgit2"; it will need to become as stable >> and widespread as other libraries we depend on, e.g. -lz and -lcurl. > > Well that's a chicken-and-egg problem, isn't it. How will a library > become widespread unless something uses it? That something will not be the git core itself. Otherwise we will lose a stable reference implementation to catch its bugs.