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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: <dag@cray.com>
Cc: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>, <greened@obbligato.org>,
	<git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: libgit2 status
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2012 12:44:07 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7v6284qfw8.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <nngsjb8i30w.fsf@transit.us.cray.com> (dag@cray.com's message of "Mon, 27 Aug 2012 13:49:19 -0500")

<dag@cray.com> writes:

> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
>
>>> I would be happy to be a guinea pig for libgit2 in order to improve it,
>>> but I don't want to significantly impact git-subtree's move to core.
>>> I'll have to figure out the right balance there given feedback.
>>
>> I expect it will take some time for libgit2 to allow our Makefile to
>> start saying "LDFLAGS += -libgit2"; it will need to become as stable
>> and widespread as other libraries we depend on, e.g. -lz and -lcurl.
>
> Well that's a chicken-and-egg problem, isn't it.  How will a library
> become widespread unless something uses it?

That something will not be the git core itself.  Otherwise we will
lose a stable reference implementation to catch its bugs.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-08-27 19:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-24 14:02 libgit2 status greened
2012-08-25  9:56 ` Andreas Ericsson
2012-08-25 20:46   ` Vicent Marti
2012-08-25 21:46     ` Nicolas Sebrecht
2012-08-25 22:32       ` Carlos Martín Nieto
2012-08-26  7:26       ` Elia Pinto
2012-08-26 18:28   ` Junio C Hamano
2012-08-26 18:56     ` Junio C Hamano
2012-08-27 16:13     ` dag
2012-08-27 17:10       ` Junio C Hamano
2012-08-27 18:49         ` dag
2012-08-27 19:44           ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2012-08-27 21:21             ` dag
2012-08-27 21:40             ` Nicolas Sebrecht
2012-08-28 17:59               ` dag
2012-08-28 18:36                 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-10-19  0:42                   ` Thiago Farina
2012-10-19  3:54                     ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2012-10-19 20:13                       ` Junio C Hamano
2012-10-19 22:11                         ` dag
2012-10-19 22:43                         ` Junio C Hamano
2012-10-20  1:21                         ` Thiago Farina
2012-10-20  7:58                         ` Andreas Ericsson

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