Richard Ipsum wrote: > Having read the docs for integrating new subcommands into git[1] I am looking > for some clarification of the following, > > "While we strongly encourage coding in portable C for portability, > these [C, shell, perl] specific scripting languages are also acceptable. > We won’t accept more without a very strong technical case, > as we don’t want to broaden the Git suite’s required dependencies" > > Does this also mean that use of non-core modules by, for example, perl > scripts, > is out of the question for contrib scripts? Or is it acceptable but ideally > minimised? > > In particular I'd like to be able to make use of Git::Raw[2] and also ideally > the Moo framework[3].
contrib is its own world. Your best bet is to ask the maintainer of the relevant contrib script what kind of portability they require (cc-ing this list). If you are the maintainer, then go wild. ;-) Thanks, Jonathan > [2]: http://search.cpan.org/~jacquesg/Git-Raw-0.58/lib/Git/Raw.pm > [3]: http://search.cpan.org/~haarg/Moo-2.000002/lib/Moo.pm -- 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
