From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jakub Narebski Subject: Re: GSoC Application [ Parallelism + Git.pm ] Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2012 09:31:17 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git To: Subho Banerjee X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Mar 18 17:31:25 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 1S9J0u-0003zK-TI for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Sun, 18 Mar 2012 17:31:25 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754973Ab2CRQbU (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Mar 2012 12:31:20 -0400 Received: from mail-wi0-f178.google.com ([209.85.212.178]:56119 "EHLO mail-wi0-f178.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754508Ab2CRQbT (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Mar 2012 12:31:19 -0400 Received: by wibhq7 with SMTP id hq7so2901216wib.1 for ; Sun, 18 Mar 2012 09:31:18 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=x-authentication-warning:to:cc:subject:references:from:date :in-reply-to:message-id:lines:user-agent:mime-version:content-type; bh=dgBJOUNERpUWyh9fri5QCt7K2LONXgUjAFSZfzAtg9Y=; b=eMfP4QZo9MuDN+6R58LSYg6Mvx6mVbz4fNjaqZOjjSmDP6KqZ3rlW6NaZ7f/EJl2Om 4DoSxx6Zy4/tO09ItcYTrYQ8AVHOZgF70pptIGUjQT8PPgkiKf8ZcsdpWhVQ9MHdR8Bm mS16tFe0L/2Q5puaTk6mtx7PS5GXlu30ZkGpvc4jQtfEUaTwZSA3TbY52S9KPQg1A4JN AdRgWxChrysHLU5vHHcfeuvzgoRhh0wUZwQWn/HxUwdlAizlh1WstZ3Kh+uHTNinVB33 SB/WelXK1sWT+yy0ToNeCCyS9HUyDpmDQRX67mHw3Ua5RgjqegPffwO9th1gkwbwxYaD UxdQ== Received: by 10.180.79.72 with SMTP id h8mr1485719wix.1.1332088278072; Sun, 18 Mar 2012 09:31:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.localdomain (abvx54.neoplus.adsl.tpnet.pl. [83.8.221.54]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id gp8sm17988212wib.5.2012.03.18.09.31.16 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 18 Mar 2012 09:31:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id q2IGVPuO021361; Sun, 18 Mar 2012 17:31:26 +0100 Received: (from jnareb@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) id q2IGVPLe021358; Sun, 18 Mar 2012 17:31:25 +0100 X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.localdomain: jnareb set sender to jnareb@gmail.com using -f In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Subho Banerjee writes: [...] > I had a look at the "Ideas" page on the GSoC website and I really > liked two particular project ideas, in which I believe I can > contribute to a larger extent. > > * Improving parallelism in various commands > * Modernizing and expanding Git.pm [...] > From what I understand of these tasks -- [...] > * For the second one, which aims at improving the Git perl module. I > tried looking around for this one on the net. I was a little confused > since I could not make out which module this was on CPAN. Is this one > of the Git::* modules or is it all of them. Because the the > functionality of the Git::Config and Git::Commit as mentioned in the > Ideas page seems to be there in the Git::Repository module on CPAN. > Could some one please clarify this. The "Modernizing and expanding Git.pm" project refers to the Git module in git sources[1], that is used by git commands implemented in Perl like git-svn, git-send-email, and interactive part of git-add. It is not on CPAN (though if you feel like it putting it on CPAN might be part of this project, but it must be "dual-lived"). [1]: http://repo.or.cz/w/git.git/blob/HEAD:/perl/Git.pm http://git.kernel.org/?p=git/git.git;a=blob;hb=HEAD;f=perl/Git.pm https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/perl/Git.pm You can of course take inspiration and code (if it is with compatibile license) from various Git::* modules on CPAN to implement the "expanding" part of this project. Note that Git.pm must remain extremly portable, which includes ActivePerl on MS Windows (msysGit or Cygwin). Use of non-core modules (for 5.8.0) should be also probably limited. > I would really appreciate any ideas or advice for making my > application for GSoC 2012 better. HTH -- Jakub Narebski