Re: PPC SHA-1 Updates in "pu"

Johannes Schindelin [off-list ref] writes:

I can live with it. Although I still think that it would be a good idea to 
convert (at least the most commonly used) scripts to C.

Perl, Python and sometimes even bash are good for fast prototyping. But 
for serious work, such as profiling, they are not that good.

I expect the eventual primary customer of Git.xs to be gitweb.

I do not necessarily agree with what you just said about
scripting languages.  Shell is a very good implementation
language for certain serious things that does not require
performance and non command line UI.

And you can see different behaviour on different platforms (plus things 
like the SunCC requirement for XS on Solaris), which make the scripts less 
robust.

I am not sure about "less robust" part, but it certainly
involves initial pain to deal with portability across platforms.

That's why I want to make sure that the basics is sound before
we spend too much time and attention on converting existing
scripts.  I think the major part of bringing Git.xs series
acceptably mergeable is not about XS programming and Perl script
conversion, but primarily about the work on the build
infrastructure (Makefile, test scripts and .spec).