From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
To: "Steve Frécinaux" <nudrema@gmail.com>
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 14:53:06 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.83.0703161433300.18328@xanadu.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1174069353.2599.13.camel@mejai>
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On Fri, 16 Mar 2007, Steve Frécinaux wrote:
> 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.
Right. I like that idea.
A good way to define the lib API needs then might be expressed as
follows:
Each existing plumbing commands must be turned into the minimal
implementation required to interact with the libgit public API and
display results.
In other words, the public libgit API should provide the same
functionality as existing plumbing commands such that those existing
commands will only need the necessary code to bridge the C interface
with the existing command line interface.
Then, of course, there is the matter of reentrancy. But that's still a
minor API detail even if it is not a trivial issue implementation wise.
But the API must be right as this is what we'll be stuck with even if
the implementation may change. And as far as an API definition is
needed I think that it should reflect the current plumbing which is
actually the real API that grew naturally and has been proven useful.
Nicolas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-16 18:53 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 [this message]
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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