[darcs-users] RFC: Third-party applications directory

[Alberto Bertogli]

Hi!

I wanted to request for comments about the directory used for third-party
applications, like darcsweb.

I've just applied a patch to support automatic repository description,
which uses the file "_darcs/third_party/darcsweb/desc" to obtain it,
instead of hardcoding it inside darcsweb's configuration.

While in this case the file itself is not important, I wanted to comment
on the directory choice, "_darcs/third_party/darcsweb/".

It was chosen following David Roundy's suggestion in this mail:
http://www.abridgegame.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2005-November/008745.html.

I don't know of any other darcs third-party application that stores data
in the _darcs directory, but it'd be nice if we all followed some kind of
convention. I'm happy with David's proposal, but before using it in the
wild, it'd be nice to have some feedback.

Thanks,
		Alberto