From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Kastrup Subject: Re: [RFC] Convert builin-mailinfo.c to use The Better String Library. Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2007 08:52:44 +0200 Message-ID: <85642n7yrn.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <46DDC500.5000606@etek.chalmers.se> <1189004090.20311.12.camel@hinata.boston.redhat.com> <4AFD7EAD1AAC4E54A416BA3F6E6A9E52@ntdev.corp.microsoft.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: "Linus Torvalds" , "Matthieu Moy" , Git To: "Dmitry Kakurin" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Sep 07 08:52:57 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1ITXhz-00074B-9I for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Fri, 07 Sep 2007 08:52:51 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964851AbXIGGwr (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Sep 2007 02:52:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932721AbXIGGwq (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Sep 2007 02:52:46 -0400 Received: from mail-in-02.arcor-online.net ([151.189.21.42]:55952 "EHLO mail-in-02.arcor-online.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932554AbXIGGwq (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Sep 2007 02:52:46 -0400 Received: from mail-in-08-z2.arcor-online.net (mail-in-08-z2.arcor-online.net [151.189.8.20]) by mail-in-02.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A10BA32E72D; Fri, 7 Sep 2007 08:52:44 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail-in-05.arcor-online.net (mail-in-05.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.45]) by mail-in-08-z2.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 925DA212FA9; Fri, 7 Sep 2007 08:52:44 +0200 (CEST) Received: from lola.goethe.zz (dslb-084-061-044-151.pools.arcor-ip.net [84.61.44.151]) by mail-in-05.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C8B912F599; Fri, 7 Sep 2007 08:52:44 +0200 (CEST) Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 17D991CAD71B; Fri, 7 Sep 2007 08:52:44 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: (Dmitry Kakurin's message of "Thu\, 6 Sep 2007 20\:09\:23 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.91.2/4175/Thu Sep 6 22:16:54 2007 on mail-in-05.arcor-online.net X-Virus-Status: Clean Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: "Dmitry Kakurin" writes: > ... and explain where I'm coming from: > My goal is to *use* Git. When something does not work *for me* I want > to be able to fix it (and contribute the fix) in *shortest time > possible* and with *minimal efforts*. As for me it's a diversion from > my main activities. > The fact that Git is written in C does not really contribute to that goal. > Suggestion to use C++ is the only alternative with existing C codebase. > So while C++ may not be the best choice "academically speaking" it's > pretty much the only practical choice. Sorry, but for fixing things in C, I can look and work locally. For fixing things in C++, I first need to understand the class hierarchies used in the project. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum