On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 12:55 PM, Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 09, 2013 at 03:28:48PM +0530, Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote: > >> Jeff King wrote: >> > Sorry that I cannot show you the source code, but you may interested to >> > know that libgit2 powers: >> >> Yes, I'm well aware of these: libgit2 is LGPL, because of which these >> three proprietary applications have been made possible. Isn't it >> completely orthogonal to the discussion about how best to lib'ify >> git.git though? From what I understand, fc is not interested in >> building another application leveraging libgit.a or libgit2; he's >> interested in improving libgit.a and getting more users. > > Perhaps I misunderstood the discussion, but it looked to me that there > was an assertion that libgit2 was not ready for useful work. I do not > think that is true, and I tried to counter it with facts. That was not the point. Take 'contrib/related/git-related', or any useful script, and make it so it uses libgit2 instead of forking 'git foo' commands. It's not going to happen. -- Felipe Contreras -- 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