From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Felipe Contreras Subject: Re: [PATCH] git_remote_helpers: remove little used Python library Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2013 20:10:07 -0500 Message-ID: References: <23afa908bb2e21779ea96da8c149dcc43aa72eda.1378570768.git.john@keeping.me.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Sverre Rabbelier , Junio C Hamano To: John Keeping X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Sep 08 03:10:29 2013 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 1VITWG-0000Mz-NF for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Sun, 08 Sep 2013 03:10:29 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751117Ab3IHBKK (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Sep 2013 21:10:10 -0400 Received: from mail-lb0-f178.google.com ([209.85.217.178]:56054 "EHLO mail-lb0-f178.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751064Ab3IHBKJ (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Sep 2013 21:10:09 -0400 Received: by mail-lb0-f178.google.com with SMTP id z5so3985935lbh.37 for ; Sat, 07 Sep 2013 18:10:08 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=A7ur4n3tVEwTx+c1wopfR0zK3iibvy1y9akhtSVJFiY=; b=03+Ct+aO/r7e8GTyMiek3EWwjmAbsCeGY4jQXBDP5fxHwOcwK2KMF6j+kCIxWsL84y Bmmz9KMqzQcxhF6m88AbpyO94TjcokU1LE2hvi2eF7uVYIlGtCsclhrCIn0hc8ZARqOV mkbwdPy+BAQp/IXTg+YUi++D+V+lViCluGk2ODAurKBpsy9Lzk6G+ekQsRzFzlXq0OBY rqcJ/hTDIHPvQpkhkPmVfBudRSNkRV3CsNbCsJhBYTcaPVHnLkfbi1FeeQ8S08AJ74h/ VJZKPfsBwwDB9952VYVKnqJqXe8EVlojD4mKiiM9Nhs8Z65iqW1lkPW/DYC0c82AGbLt TRNA== X-Received: by 10.152.116.7 with SMTP id js7mr9319188lab.11.1378602607982; Sat, 07 Sep 2013 18:10:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.91.169 with HTTP; Sat, 7 Sep 2013 18:10:07 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <23afa908bb2e21779ea96da8c149dcc43aa72eda.1378570768.git.john@keeping.me.uk> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 11:19 AM, John Keeping wrote: > When it was originally added, the git_remote_helpers library was used as > part of the tests of the remote-helper interface, but since commit > fc407f9 (Add new simplified git-remote-testgit, 2012-11-28) a simple > shell script is used for this. > > A search on Ohloh [1] indicates that this library isn't used by any > external projects and even the Python remote helpers in contrib/ don't > use this library, so it is only used by its own test suite. > > Since this is the only Python library in Git, removing it will make > packaging easier as the Python scripts only need to be installed for one > version of Python, whereas the library should be installed for all > available versions. For the record, there was a user of this: https://github.com/msysgit/git/tree/v1.8.1.msysgit.1/git_remote_helpers However, in the latest msysgit master it seems the git-remote-hg helper is gone, I don't know if by mistake or what. Johannes Schindelin made many claims about it being more complete and what not, but who knows what actually happened. -- Felipe Contreras