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From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: Rocco Rutte <pdmef@gmx.net>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Libification project (SoC)
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 02:21:11 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070319012111.GS18276@pasky.or.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0703190045520.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

  Hi,

On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 12:48:27AM CET, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Mar 2007, Petr Baudis wrote:
> 
> > [...] if you look at the UNIX history, you'll notice that first people 
> > started with non-reentrant stuff because it was "good enough" and then 
> > came back later and added reentrant versions anyway. Let's learn from 
> > history. It's question of probability but it's very likely this will 
> > happen to us as well.
> 
> Yes, let's learn from history. Start with a libgit that is good enough. 
> And when somebody actually needs it to behave a little differently, or 
> more sophisticated, then let that somebody work on it!

  I was talking about the API. The API has to be designed to be
reentrant. And you get pretty much stuck with the API. And requiring
reentrance isn't that far off once libgit is there, as I tried to point
out; it's not really any obscure requirement.

-- 
				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/
Ever try. Ever fail. No matter. // Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
		-- Samuel Beckett

  reply	other threads:[~2007-03-19  1:21 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 [this message]
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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