On Mon, Feb 18 2019, brian m. carlson wrote: > On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 11:59:27AM +0100, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: >> The gitweb code doesn't load Git.pm now, but does anyone know a reason >> for why we'd avoid any perl/* dependency in the gitweb code? If not the >> regex here & in gitweb could be factored into e.g. a tiny Git::OID >> library which would either just expose a $GIT::OID_REGEX, or something >> like the sort of interface (might not be worth it) that I suggested in >> my feedback to 31/31. > > I think one potential issue here is that some distributors bundle the > Perl modules with git send-email and not gitweb, and they're packaged > independently. I'm not opposed to seeing a patch to do that, but it > probably belongs in its own series. In packaging terms that one's easy to juggle, FWIW I'm just aware of e.g. RedHat packaging perl-Git as its own thing depended on by git-svn, git-email & friends, not anyone who packages it with git-send-email specifically. But according to gitweb/README it's also meant to be used as a stand-alone script. So: * You can wget it from the git.git repo & run it * You can run it with any (reasonable) version of git * If you're missing perl modules, those are all on CPAN (just CGI.pm should be missing these days) Making it depend on any module we ship would break all those things. I don't know if anyone cares, but avoiding this very minor copy/pasting seems like a bad reason to wake that particular dragon.
