Re: Plugin mechanism(s) for Git?

On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 11:28 PM, Eric Wong [off-list ref] wrote:

Konstantin Khomoutov [off-list ref] wrote:

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Ben Peart [off-list ref] wrote:

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Lars Schneider wrote:

We could dynamically load libraries but this would force us to
freeze the ABI as mentioned by Duy:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/298463

I wouldn’t be too quick to dismiss dynamically loaded libraries as
there are some distinct advantages over the other patterns especially
performance and simplicity.  I realize it requires us to version the
ABI but there are established patterns to manage this.  It also isn’t
that much different than us having to freeze or version the protocol
for communicating with a remote-helper.

(re-adding dropped CCs)

The critical difference is protocols can be tested and debugged
in a language/tool-independent way.

Not using dynamic libraries also makes it possible for other git
reimplementations to reuse the same plugins.
-- 
Duy