From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.0 required=3.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from localhost (dcvr.yhbt.net [127.0.0.1]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32DBA1F5AE; Thu, 25 Jun 2020 04:31:36 +0000 (UTC) Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2020 04:31:36 +0000 From: Eric Wong To: meta@public-inbox.org Subject: Re: thoughts on Git::Raw / libgit2? Message-ID: <20200625043136.GA1028@dcvr> References: <20200616214050.GA15110@dcvr> <20200622192406.GF13113@chatter.i7.local> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20200622192406.GF13113@chatter.i7.local> List-Id: Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote: > On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 09:40:51PM +0000, Eric Wong wrote: > > Git::Raw is not packaged with CentOS 7.x; but cpan/cpanm is an > > option. It is in Debian 10.x as libgit-raw-perl, so I can > > report bugs via Debian's BTS[*]. > > FYI, even though lore.kernel.org runs on CentOS 7.x, most perl modules > come from cpan -- so if your reluctance to use it is based on lore > usage, that's not something we'd be particularly concerned about. Thanks for the response. lore is definitely a big factor of consideration, but I would also like to make it easier for others to mirror lore w/o needing CPAN. Fwiw, CentOS 7.x does have libgit2-devel and Inline::C packaged; so that's an option, too. Given the announcement of Perl 7 today makes me a little uneasy(*), I might be a bit more inclined to introduce more functionality via Inline::C. (*) Perl 7 will probably be less painful than the Python 3 or Ruby 1.9 transitions, but those are low bars. Having "only" a ~decade-long support window for old Perl 5 stuff doesn't seem sufficient. I guess distros and users (myself included) will need to do our part to keep things from breaking and possibly extend maintenance indefinitely.