Re: [PATCH 1/2] Update the bash prompt from 'applied' instead of the obsolete 'current'

On 2007-05-21 12:15:40 +0200, Karl Hasselström wrote:

We might consider having plumbing written in C or something, and
make sure that the plumbing can be called directly if there's need,
but it's going to complicate things greatly compared to pure Python.

What I'm (foggily) envisioning here is to rewrite parts of StGIT (as
little as possible) as a C library (libstgit.so?), and call the
library both from the Python code, and from a "plumbing" C program
(stgit-helper?). We should not try to make the library API stable,
just like the current git library.

There are two kinds of things we'd want to have in the library: (1)
things that are too slow to do in Python, and (2) things that need to
be available from stgit-helper in order to avoid Python's startup
cost, such as top/applied/unapplied for the bash completion and bash
prompt.

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Karl Hasselström, kha@treskal.com
      www.treskal.com/kalle