[darcs-users] darcs patch: Hide the inefficient "darcs put" command.
Dan Pascu
dan at ag-projects.com
Sat Dec 6 15:40:56 UTC 2008
On Saturday 06 December 2008, Trent W. Buck wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 05:56:56PM +0200, Dan Pascu wrote:
> > IMO, hiding the command will not motivate anyone to fix it sooner,
> > on the contrary it will most likely make people ignore it to the
> > point when someone will say "Why do we keep this hidden command
> > anyway?" If anyone is seriously considering fixing it at some
> > point, keeping it around as a constant reminder will at some point
> > bother someone enough to fix it.
>
> Indeed, what I'd really like is for put to be removed until someone
> writes an implementation that behaves like get and has similar
> resource consumption. Hiding it means the code stays available but
> isn't advertised, because currently it's just a proof-of-concept stub.
I would rather have something suboptimal that I can use right now, than
some innexistent perfect implementation in an uncertain future.
--
Dan
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