Hi Chamila, I found [1] which is built upon Dulwich
[1] https://github.com/FriendCode/gittle On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 11:06 AM, Chamila De Alwis <chami...@wso2.com> wrote: > Hi Lahiru, > > GitPython requires the Git binary to work for most commands. Plus it > doesn't support authentication of any kind as of now. The requirement is > that the library should not depend on the git binary to interact with the > git index. > > > Regards, > Chamila de Alwis > Software Engineer | WSO2 | +94772207163 > Blog: code.chamiladealwis.com > > > > On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 9:25 AM, Lahiru Sandaruwan <lahi...@wso2.com> > wrote: > >> Did you see https://github.com/gitpython-developers/GitPython >> >> It is new BSD. >> >> On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 9:17 AM, Chamila De Alwis <chami...@wso2.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi Imesh, >>> >>> From a brief research I did, I could find only few libraries for Python >>> which doesn't make use of the Git binary file. The more mature one is >>> called Dulwich[1]. There is also another library called pygit2[2] which is >>> a C Bindings module for libgit2[3]. >>> >>> Unfortunately we can't use Dulwich in our code since it is licensed >>> GPLv2, which is incompatible with Apache[4]. >>> >>> However pygit2 is licensed GPLv2 with "linking exception", which allows >>> the use of the compiled file without any restrictions of the GPL. >>> >>> Therefore, as of now, there is the serious issue of not having any pure >>> Python implementation of Git under Apache license to be used in the Python >>> cartridge agent. There is also the option of writing a similar library >>> anew, which would be time consuming. >>> >>> >>> [1] - https://www.samba.org/~jelmer/dulwich/ >>> [2] - http://www.pygit2.org/index.html >>> [3] - https://libgit2.github.com/ >>> [4] - http://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html#category-x >>> >>> >>> Regards, >>> Chamila de Alwis >>> Software Engineer | WSO2 | +94772207163 >>> Blog: code.chamiladealwis.com >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> -- >> Lahiru Sandaruwan >> Committer and PMC member, Apache Stratos, >> Senior Software Engineer, >> WSO2 Inc., http://wso2.com >> lean.enterprise.middleware >> >> email: lahi...@wso2.com blog: http://lahiruwrites.blogspot.com/ >> linked-in: http://lk.linkedin.com/pub/lahiru-sandaruwan/16/153/146 >> >> > -- *Dinesh Bandara* Software Engineer WSO2 Inc.; http://wso2.com lean.enterprise.middleware
