On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 1:17 PM, Felipe Contreras <felipe.contre...@gmail.com> wrote: > Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> In other words, now the Git user and developer community are strong >> and thriving, >> we should strive to make the core smaller, not larger, and encourage people >> to >> form more third party communities that specialise in the areas the >> participant of >> these communities are stronger than those who are involved in the core >> (e.g. like >> myself, Peff, Nico, Jonathan, etc.). For programs that talk remote-helper or >> credential-helper protocols, for example, it is wasteful to have them >> in our contrib/ >> and have the changes to them go through my tree, with the same coding style >> standard applied to the core, which would in the longer term only add >> unnecessary overhead to what they want to do and what their effort supply the >> users with. > > Of course, we can make the core smaller, by replacing all the perl/shell > scripts with ruby ones. > > Sure, it would be better if all the scripts were rewritten in C, but that has > been going on for years, and there's no end in sight, and not that much > progress at all. > > So, it's fair to say that the rewrite to C is just not going to happen any > time > soon, and if we accept that, we should accept that an interim solution is > needed, because Windows users are important and they are hurting right now, > and > that solution could definitely be Ruby. > > Rewriting scripts to C is hard, rewriting them to Ruby is easy, and one of the > advantages of rewriting to Ruby, is that having the C->Ruby bindings available > would make it easy to replace part of the scripts chunk by chunk, so we could > have a half Ruby, half C script, and eventually 100% C. > > This is a practical solution, it's a realistic path to move forward, not one > based on wishful thinking and intentions that never get realized. > > Once again, the perfect being the enemy of the good in the Git project, even > when the good leads to perfect. I think I've pretty much demonstrated that Ruby would be an excellent tool to make the code smaller with my 44 patch series. -- Felipe Contreras -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
