[darcs-users] Welcome DARCS 2 and DARCS browser

[Ben Coburn]

On Apr 22, 2008, at 09:20, Jason Dagit wrote:

> I've never looked at vc-darcs, but how does it handle the case of  
> selectively recording a hunk?  I believe to satisfy the needs of the  
> original poster, hunk selection at record time via a gui would be  
> necessary.
>
> One approach would be to use the current interactive interface of  
> darcs.  I think this is inherently hard to do.  Maybe I'm just bad  
> at it, but I've always found programmatically working with an  
> interactive interface is hard.  Sometimes you mistakenly block  
> waiting to hear from the other process and vice versa.  This leads  
> to a flaky UI and none of us want that.  I find that error handling  
> and reporting is usually harder when using the subprocess technique.
>

I've done this. While it is a bit painful to code, the good news is  
that it is possible. Generally I agree with your comments... Every  
time I see patches related to making darcs more grammatically correct,  
I wonder if it will break a string I have to match on.


Regards, Ben Coburn