[darcs-users] Re: Darcs and a single developer working on multiple workstations

[kirstin penelope rhys]

On Wednesday 23 March 2005 22:06, Aaron Denney wrote:
> On 2005-03-24, Michael G Schwern <schwern at pobox.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 02:16:35AM +0000, Aaron Denney wrote:
> >> Yes, SMTP is the most widespread way to send e-mail, but it's not the
> >> only way.  Should darcs also handle UUCP?
> >
> > That's getting a little rediculous.  It would be like arguing darcs
> > shouldn't bother being an HTTP client because someone out there might
> > want to use gopher.
>
> Not really.  It's more like saying darcs shouldn't bother to be an ssh
> client if it can get that functionality from another source. 

It really seems like we should create a generalized hook infrastructure, and 
be done with such issues. People may even wrap darcs in a particular set of 
external hooks and package up the whole set for a particular application.

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