Re: Can I use CRoaring library in Git?

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On Mon, Jul 18, 2022 at 5:48 PM Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 7/18/22 7:48 AM, Abhradeep Chakraborty wrote:
> > I just got to know that CRoaring doesn't support Big Endian systems (till now) -
> >
> > https://groups.google.com/g/roaring-bitmaps/c/CzLmIRnYlps
> >
> > What do you think about this?
>
> Git cares enough about compatibility that that might be a
> deal-breaker for taking the code as-is. If we _did_ take it
> as-is, then we would need to not make it available on such
> machines using compiler macros.

Yeah, we can't use the code as-is. We might need to make some
Git-favourable changes on top of it if we use the library.

I still haven't asked him about Relicensing. Let us see what others say.

Thanks :)



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