Hello! Josselin Poiret <d...@jpoiret.xyz> skribis:
> Right, although I wouldn't necessarily say that the former doesn't have > a proper API, but rather that it has a Unix-oriented API. That leads to > performance issues on e.g. Windows but on Linux I'm not sure there's > much of a difference. [...] > We could consider replacing the guile-git dependency with another > library built directly on top of git-minimal, and have this be a > dependency of Guix. Not ideal though, and not really scalable either: > we can't just add every VCS as direct dependencies. I cannot imagine a viable implementation of things like ‘commit-closure’ and ‘commit-relation’ from (guix git) done by shelling out to ‘git’. I’m quite confident this would be slow and brittle. It looks like there’s no option other than carrying the two implementations. ~~~ Years ago, Andy Wingo sketched a plan for GNU hackers to implement Git in pure Scheme. That was on April 1st though, so people mistakenly assumed it was a joke and the project was never carried out. I digress, but I wonder: is there not even a viable Haskell or OCaml implementation of Git? Thanks, Ludo’.
