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From: "Steve Frécinaux" <nudrema@gmail.com>
To: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Cc: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
	Rocco Rutte <pdmef@gmx.net>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Libification project (SoC)
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 19:22:33 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1174069353.2599.13.camel@mejai> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.83.0703161218140.5518@xanadu.home>

On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 12:26 -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:

> Sure.  But the output from an executable is a damn good abstraction and 
> the executable itself is an impenetrable boundary.  Anything can change 
> (and did change) underneath.

Strictly speaking, you can use opaque structures for commits and so on
(so that the outside world will only ever see a pointer), and use some
getter/setters for commonly used stuffs (like datum, title, content).

Also, I guess what people would expect from a C library is roughly the
same as for the current plumbing... just easier to use from another
program. It doesn't need a low-level access to data structure (most
applications would be to interact with an existing repo or to store data
for a third-party software, something that is high-level) and I don't
think such an opaque API would be a huge constraint as soon as you keep
the Object/Index/Tree/Commit/etc basic opaque structs.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-03-16 18:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-16  4:24 Libification project (SoC) Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino
2007-03-16  4:59 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-03-16  5:30   ` Junio C Hamano
2007-03-16  6:00     ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-03-16  6:54       ` Junio C Hamano
2007-03-16 11:54         ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-03-16 13:09           ` Rocco Rutte
2007-03-16 15:12             ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-03-16 15:55               ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-03-16 16:13                 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-03-16 16:26                   ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-03-16 18:22                     ` Steve Frécinaux [this message]
2007-03-16 18:53                       ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-03-18 13:57                         ` Petr Baudis
2007-03-16 23:26                     ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-03-16 16:17                 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-03-16 18:20               ` Marco Costalba
2007-03-16 18:38                 ` Marco Costalba
2007-03-16 18:59                   ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-03-16 21:07                     ` Marco Costalba
2007-03-16 23:24                       ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-03-17  7:04                         ` Marco Costalba
2007-03-17 17:29                           ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-03-16 19:09                   ` Andy Parkins
2007-03-18 14:08               ` Petr Baudis
2007-03-18 23:48                 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-03-19  1:21                   ` Petr Baudis
2007-03-19  1:43                     ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-03-19  2:56                       ` Theodore Tso
2007-03-19  3:55                         ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-03-19 14:57                         ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-03-19 16:28                         ` Linus Torvalds
2007-03-19 16:32                           ` Linus Torvalds
2007-03-21 11:17                           ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-03-21 17:24                             ` Linus Torvalds
2007-03-22  9:51                               ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-03-19  7:01                       ` Marco Costalba
2007-03-19  9:46                         ` Steve Frécinaux
2007-03-19 10:33                         ` Steve Frécinaux
2007-03-19 12:37                         ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-03-19 12:52                           ` Petr Baudis
2007-03-19 13:55                             ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-03-19 13:04                           ` Marco Costalba
2007-03-16 12:53     ` Petr Baudis
2007-03-16 13:47     ` Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino
2007-03-16 14:08       ` Petr Baudis
2007-03-16 18:38         ` Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino
2007-03-16 23:16           ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-03-17 19:58             ` Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino
2007-03-18  5:23               ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-03-18  5:52                 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-03-18 16:18                   ` Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino
2007-03-18 19:31                     ` Junio C Hamano
2007-03-19 16:09                       ` Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino
2007-03-18 21:15                     ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-03-16 15:16       ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-03-16  8:06   ` Johannes Sixt
2007-03-16  8:58     ` Matthieu Moy
2007-03-16 11:51       ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-03-16 12:55   ` Petr Baudis
2007-03-17  2:24 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-03-17  5:22   ` Shawn O. Pearce

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