[darcs-users] Welcome DARCS 2 and DARCS browser

Miklos Vajna vmiklos at frugalware.org
Tue Apr 22 22:51:52 UTC 2008


On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 04:49:50PM +0200, Lele Gaifax <lele at nautilus.homeip.net> wrote:
> Two of my projects rely on the ability to "fetch" information and
> "interact" with darcs. One of them in particular, tailor, has the
> ambition of "talking" to several kinds of VCs at the same time, so I
> may be a little biased here, but I heartly agree with Juliusz. To
> quote Zooko, "CLI is the most stable API" :) It is a fact that the
> backend the needs my attention more often due to (crazy/little)
> changes to the API is the mercurial one, which is even written in
> Python. The darcs backend is the older one, and I'd say it was the
> most easy to get working, and the one that I change less often in
> absolute.

though it would be nice if darcs would support --xml for more operations
like darcs pull --dry-run --xml, parsing it in tailor is a pain. (it's
handled somehow, but that's quite hackish.)
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