[darcs-users] darcs UI: send = bundle file; send --mail = mail

[Benjamin Franksen]

Eric Kow wrote:
> Sorry if I got carried away.  

Same here ;-)

> My attitude with UI feedback is to avoid effectively asking our users to
> design the UI for us.  It's not about ?do you like it better if we do X or
> Y??  

Well, I am probably not representative for the majority of users, but FWIW 
one of the things I value in a UI (especially a command line UI) is 
consistency. Darcs is certainly better in this regard than many other 
command line tools, but there are some rough edges that could (w/o much 
effort, I think) be smoothed. My message here 
http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2012-August/026593.html 
outlines a few. As I write this, another one comes to my mind, namely the 
extra 'enter' I have to hit after darcs asks for confirmation (for e.g. 
revert) ... but I see now that this has been fixed in the screened repo. 
Cool.

Apropos screened repo: a while ago I sent a patch to Setup.hs that fixes the 
build for people who have made --interactive their default for 'darcs 
changes'. Since the change is trivial and cannot break anything, I thought 
it was a no-brainer and would go through screening w/o any further ado, but 
I never received a reply nor can I see it in screened.

Cheers
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