[darcs-devel] status of libdarcs?

[Ben Coburn]

On Mar 31, 2008, at 06:44, David Roundy wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 05:32:17PM -0700, Ben Coburn wrote:
>>> Also in question is whether libdarcs should allow arbitrary  
>>> programs to
>>> corrupt user's repositories.  The sort of API you ask for would be  
>>> very
>>> hard to implement in anything approaching a safe manner.
>>
>> I don't think it is as hard to produce a relatively safe "libdarcs"
>> API as you describe. Naturally I may be overlooking something, but  
>> let
>> me outline some brainstorming on how a safe "libdarcs camp 2.5" API
>> might work. I'll break this down based on types of repository
>> corruption/errors.
>
> No, it really is as hard to produce a safe libdarcs as I describe.   
> Either
> that, or I'm just far stupider than I think I am.  That's possible,  
> but if
> it's true, then it's probably easier for you to reimplement darcs  
> than for
> me to implement a safe libdarcs.

>


Well I'll take your word for it.

I think darcs has official spoiled most of us with it's simplicity and  
"just cherry-pick everything" attitude to patch exchange. Thanks again  
for creating such a cool distributed revision control system!

Regards, Ben Coburn