[darcs-users] Handling _darcs paths (Was: Re: [patch156] ...)

Eric Kow kowey at darcs.net
Sun Mar 21 10:39:25 UTC 2010


On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 08:13:40 +0100, Petr Rockai wrote:
> it seems we need a decision whether we should use some sort of
> abstraction over "_darcs/foo" (like a global constant, darcsdir and
> concatenation, or something a little smarter or whatever).

Petr's efforts to avoid a lengthy bikeshed discussion worked *too*
well :-)

> 1) "_darcs/pristine.hashed"
> 2) darcsdir "pristine.hashed"
> 3) darcsdir hashedPristineDir
> 4) darcsdir HashedPristineDir
> 5) darcsdir HashedPristine
> 6) hashedPristineDir -- includes "_darcs"
> 7) darcsdir ++ "/" ++ "pristine.hashed"
> 8) darcsdir ++ "/" ++ hashedPristineDir
> 9) darcsdir ++ "/" ++ hashedDir HashedPristine
> 10) any of 5-7 with </> instead of ++ "/" ++
> 11) Some variation of the naming. (dir_hashedPristine, ...)

We had a round-table discussion about this at the Zurich sprint and it
looks like the consensus is to get rid of hard-coded "_darcs" and also
to use </>...

I doubt the other issues related to this matter.

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Eric Kow <http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Eric.Kow>
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