Am 30.07.24 um 06:49 schrieb Patrick Steinhardt: > On Mon, Jul 29, 2024 at 11:55:52AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> Patrick Steinhardt <ps@xxxxxx> writes: >> >>> is standalone nowadays and called "clar" [1]. The biggest downside of it >>> is that it depends on Python to auto-generate the test "main" function, >>> which is not really a good fit for the Git project. >> >> Is that because Python is optional (like, we only use it for >> optional Perforce thing and import-zip in contrib), or are there >> other concerns? >> >> Unlike these components, unit tests are not even for the end-user >> consumers, so if it is Python that you find it a blocker, I do not >> see a reason to reject it. The thing looked like a simple script >> that does not use any tricky language construct or modules. > > No concerns other than adding another mandatory dependency for devs. We > already depend on Perl and Shell, so adding Python to the stack feels > suboptimal to me. > > As you say though, the script isn't all that involved. So it would also > be possible to port it to Perl if we want to do that, I guess.
