[darcs-devel] old-fashioned removal notice
Ganesh Sittampalam
ganesh at earth.li
Sat Jan 29 14:00:59 UTC 2011
On Fri, 28 Jan 2011, Guillaume Hoffmann wrote:
> Alternative solution: just say OF is deprecated, don't say exactly
> why, instead give link to http://wiki.darcs.net/DarcsTwo or a more
> precise page about OF deprecation in darcs 2.8.
>
> ***********************************************************************
> _______ Sorry for the wait! The repository you are fetching is
> | | using the DEPRECATED 'old-fashioned' format. I'm getting a
> | O O | hashed copy instead, but this may take a while.
> | ___ |
> | / \ | We recommend that the maintainer upgrade the remote copy
> |_______| as well. See http://wiki.darcs.net/OF for more information.
> ***********************************************************************
>
>
> This will give us as much space as we want to tell exactly what is
> going on and how to upgrade.
That sounds like a good approach. I think the other piece is that we
should add similar messages to all commands involving OF repos, and also
add a way for users to disable the messages. Any objections?
> As a non native-english-speaker, I like the smiley.
OK, let's keep it :-)
Ganesh
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