From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: Rocco Rutte <pdmef@gmx.net>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Libification project (SoC)
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 12:26:25 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.83.0703161218140.5518@xanadu.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0703161710400.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
On Fri, 16 Mar 2007, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, 16 Mar 2007, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 16 Mar 2007, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> >
> > > We already _have_ the data structures!
> >
> > Well... Shawn and I are contemplating alternate data structures to
> > improve things dramatically.
>
> I was alluding to rev_info, not pack_window and friends.
>
> > With a fixed public API I doubt such improvements could be as effective.
>
> Just think of the "API" we have for porcelains. It is literally unchanged
> since the beginning. You can even use the original script git-log.sh
> today! _That_ is what I mean by fixed public API: give certain guarantees
> about what will not go away.
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.
This is why a public API must be done at a higher level to allow for
anything to change at the lower level as we wish.
Nicolas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-16 16:26 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 [this message]
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
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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