On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 3:16 PM, Catalin Marinas
<catalin.marinas@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 07/06/2008, Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com> wrote:
>> On 2008-06-06 09:44:37 +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote:
>>  > 2008/6/5 Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com>:
>> > > We'll have to be watchful against attempts to create objects other
>> > > than via the officially designated factories, though. Python
>> > > doesn't really have any mechanisms that help us here.
>> >
>> > If you really want enforcing this, it can probably be done by
>> > hacking __new__ and __init__.
>>
>> No, I reckon you're right -- it's overkill. StGit is small enough that
>>  we can probably enforce the relevant restrictions by hand.
>
> Hidden plan - once the new stgit.lib.git module is complete, we can
> advertise it as a stand-alone object-oriented Git wrapper for Python
> :-). At that point, we can think about enforcing the factory
> mechanism.
>
> --
> Catalin

Surely you don't want people to have to install stgit just to "import git"?
(or perhaps you do, since that'd give people incentive to install stgit ;))

Back to the point...

A few folks are working towards an OO git interface for python.
Perhaps joining forces would be a big win for everyone?

http://gitorious.org/projects/git-python

It would be really cool if we could wrangle in all interested parties
towards a common goal for python.  You guys (the stgit team) have a
lot of experience in this domain so your ideas and opinions would be
greatly appreciated.

-- 
 David