On Saturday 30 January 2010, Junio C Hamano wrote: > The files that are problematic are only infrastructure bits to support > "remote helpers written in Python" (which we don't ship at all yet). > > Once we start shipping real remote helpers, separating Python bits out > into its own package would make a lot of sense. People who want to use > foreign scm helpers that happen to be written in Python would need it, > and all others don't. > > But I suspect that a safer alternative at least for 1.7.0 would be to > leave these files out altogether. As I understand the current state, it > is an unused but required package dependency on Python, a downside > without an upside. Is it Ok with "remote helpers in Python" folks (I > think Sverre and Johan are principal parties), or did I miss some reason > that these need to be installed/installable, perhaps to support third > party packages that already exist? AFAICS, there's no reason why these should be installed without anything actually using them. Although I defer to Sverre, who did the last work in this area. ...Johan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html