From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
To: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Cc: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>,
"Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino" <lcapitulino@mandriva.com.br>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Libification project (SoC)
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 13:53:27 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070316125327.GC4489@pasky.or.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vejnpycu1.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 06:30:46AM CET, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org> writes:
> > But other areas die when they get given a bad SHA-1 (for example).
> > If the library caller can supply that (possibly bad) SHA-1 to an
> > API function, that's just mean to die out. ;-)
>
> That's a real problem, but on the other hand, perl or whatever
> wrapped ones can do the dying (or not dying) before calling into
> libgit, so it may not be such a big issue.
At least you can catch the die from the library caller using
set_*_routine(). ;-)
> >> o Documentation (eg, doxygen)
> >> o Unit-tests
> >> o Add prefix (eg, git_*) to public API functions
> >
> > Yes. But which functions shall we expose? ;-)
>
> Before going into that topic, a bigger question is if we are
> happy with the current internal API and what the goal of
> libification is. If the libification is going to say that "this
> is a published API so we are not going to change it", I would
> imagine that it would be very hard to accept in the mainline.
> Improvements like the earlier sliding mmap() series need to be
> able to change the interfaces without backward compatibility
> wart.
>
> In other words, I do not know what idiot ^W ^W who listed the
> libification stuff on the SoC "ideas" page, but I think (1) it
> is premature to promise stable ABI, and (2) if it does not
> promise stable ABI a library is not very useful.
I disagree, it can live in the "zero major version" realm and already be
very useful for language bindings (say whatever is bundled with git
itself) and other nifty stuff.
--
Petr "Pasky" Baudis
Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/
Ever try. Ever fail. No matter. // Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-16 12:53 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
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 [this message]
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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