From: A Large Angry SCM <gitzilla@gmail•com>
To: Jon Seymour <jon.seymour@gmail•com>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: Re: RFC: a plugin architecture for git extensions?
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 13:07:49 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DB84D65.6070906@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTikGZgEb-4jzHt+t2k__s7BMgbU9gg@mail.gmail.com>
On 04/27/2011 12:13 PM, Jon Seymour wrote:
> I think my use of the word package was unfortunate, since it suggests
> I am proposing an alternative to tools such as apt-get, brew, rpm etc.
>
> This is not the intention. The intention is to manage _plugins_ to
> git, treating git itself as a platform.
>
> Plugins will be delivered via platform-specific package managers
> (perhaps sequenced by git-pm), but once they arrive on the OS platform
> they will be _activated_ by the plugin manager and this made available
> to the git command line.
>
> Platform specific concerns such as building and (most) dependency
> management will be delegated to platform specific package managers.
>
> The overriding objective is to allow a git user to install a git
> plugin called foobar with 4 words:
>
> git pm install foobar
>
> given that someone, somwhere, has done the work to create a plugin
> descriptor and create an installable package of some kind for whatever
> package managers are required in order to successfully install the
> plugin on the target platform.
>
> The same command should work whether your git platform is hosted on
> MAC OSX, cygwin, Debian, Fedora, AIX or Windows.
>
> Where git can be used as the underlying package manager, it will be
> (for extensions which really are just source repos). If more
> sophisticated build support is required, then that will be delegated
> to a platform specific package manager via one of a small number of
> package manager adapters.
For a git plugin ecosystem to work, a (relatively) stable API/ABI is
necessary for the plugin authors to code to. Where is your proposal for
that.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-27 17:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 105+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-27 3:36 RFC: a plugin architecture for git extensions? Jon Seymour
2011-04-27 3:58 ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-04-27 5:06 ` Jon Seymour
2011-04-27 5:07 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-04-27 5:10 ` Jon Seymour
2011-04-27 5:17 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-04-27 5:33 ` Jon Seymour
2011-04-27 5:37 ` Jon Seymour
2011-04-27 5:39 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-04-27 5:42 ` Jon Seymour
2011-04-27 7:15 ` Jon Seymour
2011-04-27 7:57 ` Michael J Gruber
2011-04-27 8:15 ` Jon Seymour
2011-04-27 8:40 ` Jon Seymour
2011-04-27 9:36 ` Motiejus Jakštys
2011-04-27 9:59 ` Jon Seymour
2011-04-27 10:48 ` Motiejus Jakštys
2011-04-27 10:21 ` Carlos Martín Nieto
2011-04-27 10:44 ` Jon Seymour
2011-04-27 11:38 ` Fredrik Gustafsson
2011-04-27 11:57 ` Jon Seymour
2011-04-27 22:32 ` Pau Garcia i Quiles
2011-04-27 22:47 ` Jon Seymour
2011-04-27 11:01 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2011-04-27 11:42 ` Jon Seymour
2011-05-13 19:32 ` Enrico Weigelt
2011-04-27 12:08 ` Andreas Ericsson
2011-04-27 12:50 ` Jon Seymour
2011-04-27 13:07 ` Felipe Contreras
2011-04-27 13:59 ` Jon Seymour
2011-04-27 14:52 ` Andreas Ericsson
2011-04-27 15:36 ` Jon Seymour
2011-04-27 16:13 ` Jon Seymour
2011-04-27 17:07 ` A Large Angry SCM [this message]
2011-04-28 3:07 ` Jon Seymour
2011-04-28 3:26 ` Jon Seymour
2011-04-28 5:04 ` Jon Seymour
2011-04-28 6:15 ` Jon Seymour
2011-04-28 16:16 ` david
2011-04-29 3:35 ` Jon Seymour
2011-04-27 19:16 ` Motiejus Jakštys
2011-04-27 19:19 ` Motiejus Jakštys
2011-04-27 17:34 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-04-27 18:28 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-04-27 18:49 ` Drew Northup
2011-04-27 19:42 ` Joey Hess
2011-04-27 20:16 ` Drew Northup
2011-04-27 21:38 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-04-27 22:08 ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-04-27 22:32 ` Jon Seymour
2011-04-28 9:07 ` Andreas Ericsson
2011-04-27 23:27 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-04-27 23:42 ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-04-28 0:10 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-04-28 0:50 ` Jon Seymour
2011-04-28 0:54 ` Jon Seymour
2011-04-28 0:55 ` david
2011-04-28 2:08 ` Jon Seymour
2011-04-28 2:15 ` Jon Seymour
2011-04-28 2:49 ` Jon Seymour
2011-04-28 9:25 ` Andreas Ericsson
2011-04-28 10:56 ` Jon Seymour
2011-04-28 11:11 ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-04-28 11:20 ` Jon Seymour
2011-05-05 21:41 ` David Aguilar
2011-05-05 21:53 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-05-05 23:51 ` Jon Seymour
2011-05-06 4:47 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-05-06 6:20 ` Jon Seymour
2011-05-06 6:56 ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-05-06 7:03 ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-05-06 14:07 ` Jon Seymour
2011-05-06 14:17 ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-05-06 14:29 ` Jon Seymour
2011-05-06 14:50 ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-05-08 4:28 ` Jon Seymour
2011-05-08 6:49 ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-05-08 7:42 ` Jon Seymour
2011-05-06 17:23 ` Jeff King
2011-05-07 8:24 ` John Szakmeister
2011-05-08 4:44 ` Jon Seymour
2011-05-09 7:35 ` Jeff King
2011-05-09 7:49 ` Jon Seymour
2011-05-09 8:12 ` Jeff King
2011-05-09 8:45 ` Jon Seymour
2011-05-09 10:44 ` Jeff King
2011-05-09 11:07 ` Jon Seymour
2011-05-09 11:13 ` Jon Seymour
2011-05-09 11:24 ` Jeff King
2011-05-09 11:28 ` Jon Seymour
2011-05-09 12:21 ` Jeff King
2011-05-09 22:50 ` Jon Seymour
2011-05-08 13:13 ` Jon Seymour
2011-05-09 4:36 ` Miles Bader
2011-05-14 12:51 ` David Aguilar
2011-04-28 9:11 ` Andreas Ericsson
2011-04-28 10:38 ` Jon Seymour
2011-04-28 7:40 ` Pau Garcia i Quiles
2011-04-28 8:09 ` Jon Seymour
2011-04-28 9:11 ` Pau Garcia i Quiles
2011-04-28 9:42 ` Jon Seymour
2011-04-28 0:06 ` Jon Seymour
2011-04-28 0:08 ` Jon Seymour
2011-04-27 21:29 ` Motiejus Jakštys
2011-04-27 21:47 ` Jon Seymour
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