Me too – I don't think it will be all that much.
On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 4:23 PM, Jake Bolewski <jakebolew...@gmail.com>wrote: > Sounds like a plan. I'm hoping the amount of functionality that needs to > end up in Base is pretty small. > > > On Monday, January 13, 2014 1:54:45 PM UTC-5, Stefan Karpinski wrote: >> >> 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>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 >>>>> > >>>>> >>>>> >>>
