[darcs-devel] [issue938] darcs transplant

Ganesh Sittampalam ganesh at earth.li
Sun Sep 6 22:34:31 UTC 2009


BTW I only happened to notice this because I couldn't sleep and was 
browsing my darcs-devel folder. Is replying to messages on darcs-devel the 
correct way to discuss bugs?

On Sun, 6 Sep 2009, Reinier Lamers wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> On Sunday 06 September 2009 01:04:20 Ganesh Sittampalam wrote:

>> I have a feeling that it will be possible to implement at least some 
>> aspects of the feature as a separate application using the darcs 
>> library, without depending on too much stuff that's likely to change 
>> fast. If this is indeed feasible, is it desirable?
>
> Why would you want to implement as a separate application? If it's 
> highly desired darcs functionality, I think it's best to just include it 
> in darcs.

I think on reflection that I agree with this - but the counter 
argument is that it's also somewhat controversial (see David's objection) 
and therefore should be kept somewhat separate.

> I faintly recall that this discussion has been going on a couple of 
> months ago.

It's not on the bug tracker, so I'm not sure where it might be.

Cheers,

Ganesh


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