Ok, game plan:
1. Merge https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/4866. This means
building julia will download and build libgit2 as a dependency (and
submodule), but initially we won't be using it for anything.
2. Modify LibGit2 to use the libgit2 that ships with Julia.
3. On a branch, port Pkg to use LibGit2, assuming the package is already
installed. At this point the branch exists in strange state where you have
to install the LibGit2 package in order to use Pkg – which you can't do
without Pkg. This state of affairs is transient.
4. Once it becomes clear what subset of LibGit2 is necessary for Pkg,
refactor so that that core part of LibGit2 lives in Base, while the LibGit2
package layers the rest of the LibGit2 interface on top of that bare
minimum. After these changes, it will no longer be necessary to have
LibGit2 installed to use Pkg.
5. Merge the branch, celebrate.
Sound reasonable?
On Monday, January 13, 2014, Isaiah Norton wrote:
> Yes, just shared a download link with you.
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 11:04 AM, Jake Bolewski
> <jakebolew...@gmail.com<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'jakebolew...@gmail.com');>
> > wrote:
>
>> Thanks John.
>>
>> You're on OSX right? I don't know how much of a pain it would be to
>> install the libgit library but it would be great if you could try to run
>> the tests to see if any changes need to be made there. I don't have access
>> to a mac so this would be a big help.
>>
>> On that note, does anyone have a 3.0 prerelease Window's build I can use
>> for testing?
>>
>> Best,
>> Jake
>>
>>
>> On Sunday, January 12, 2014 6:29:27 PM UTC-5, John Myles White wrote:
>>
>>> This seems really awesome. Amazing work, Jake!
>>>
>>> — John
>>>
>>> On Jan 11, 2014, at 9:56 PM, Jake Bolewski <jakebo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> > Link https://github.com/jakebolewski/LibGit2.jl
>>> >
>>> > On Sunday, January 12, 2014 12:55:27 AM UTC-5, Jake Bolewski wrote:
>>> > Hi everyone,
>>> >
>>> > I've been working on LibGit2 bindings for julia over the past month or
>>> so, steadily porting over the the test suite from Ruby's rugged library.
>>> > Allmost all of the tests have been rewritten and are now passing.
>>> Most of the testing has been done on the development branch of the libgit
>>> library and on Linux.
>>> > Please run the test suite and submit an issue if (when) it breaks on
>>> your system.
>>> >
>>> > Hopefully once this matures some more it will enable Pkg to be be
>>> rewritten using libgit.
>>> > See: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/4158,
>>> https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/4866
>>> >
>>> > If you have any spare cycles please help! The api could be refactored
>>> quite a bit. Hopefully this is a good base to work from.
>>> >
>>> > Best,
>>> > Jake
>>> >
>>>
>>>
>
