Re: [PATCH 3/3] Makefile: Add cache-tree.h to the public headers list

"Dmitry V. Levin" [off-list ref] writes:

Some external projects (e.g. parsecvs) need cache-tree.h file.

Your patch shows that our Makefile has been lacking a necessary
dependency for a long time.  LIB_H is not "public headers list",
but more like "the headers everybody depends on", and the header
file should have been on that list.  Thanks.

I am however not convinced it is a good idea to treat libgit.a
as if it is a library.  It is not a library in the usual sense
of the word.  Originally we did libgit.a primarily so that we do
not have to list all the *.o dependencies in the Makefile out of
laziness ;-)

On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 05:16:47PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
[...]

I am however not convinced it is a good idea to treat libgit.a
as if it is a library.
It is not a library in the usual sense of the word.

I'd certainly prefer libgit.so with stable interface instead, but
parsecvs needs -lgit now, it cannot wait for "good library".


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