Re: js/scalar, was Re: What's cooking in git.git (Oct 2021, #05; Mon, 18)

Hi Ævar,

On Fri, 22 Oct 2021, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:

On Thu, Oct 21 2021, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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tl;dr it isn't worth your nor my time for you to focus on the build
process in contrib/scalar/ at this moment.

I still stand by these words, and I think you completely glanced over this
problem. Your focus seems to lie exclusively on those "dependency
problems". But apart from you, who cares if `libgit.a` is not rebuilt in
obscure and rare circumstances _when building something in `contrib/`_?
The code in `contrib/scalar/` is transitional.

Just forget about Scalar's build process. Forget about getting its CI to
work. I have all that figured out already. It is all working as well as
needed.

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Having said that, I do appreciate your interest in this patch series, and
I have suggestions at the end of this mail how we could collaborate on it
in a more fruitful manner.

I would still like to invite you to think along more productive lines.
It's not about where Scalar's build mechanics are right now. It's where we
can take _Git_ to do what Scalar already does.

Ciao,
Dscho

[... skipping a lot of talk about "fixing" the build problems that I do
not consider problems at all at this stage, and probably also not later
because I want Scalar _not_ to be integrated more closely into Git's
build process as I have pointed out multiple times even while you are
continuously trying to push for the exact opposite of that and I am
starting to feel a bit unheard...]