From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>
Cc: 2756@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com, bug-gnu-emacs <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: bug#2756: move SCCS later in vc-handled-backends
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 16:16:49 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvprg857ll.fsf-monnier+emacsbugreports@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200903231725.n2NHPLF1011557@godzilla.ics.uci.edu> (Dan Nicolaescu's message of "Mon, 23 Mar 2009 10:25:21 -0700 (PDT)")
> SCCS should be moved after later in the vc-handled-backends list, after
> the modern VCs.
> Opening any file costs a call to vc-sccs-registered
> vc-sccs-search-project-dir (and whatever they call).
No matter where SCCS is in the vc-handled-backends list, those functions
will be run for any file that is not version controlled, which is likely
to be a very common case.
> SCCS is not really popular nowadays,
Same thing for RCS, indeed.
> and that should be reflected on the vc-handled-backends list.
We could remove backends from the list based on the presence/absence of
the corresponding executable(s).
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-23 20:16 UTC|newest]
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2009-03-23 17:25 ` bug#2756: move SCCS later in vc-handled-backends Dan Nicolaescu
2009-03-23 20:16 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2009-03-23 21:51 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-03-23 22:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-03-23 22:22 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-03-23 23:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-04-01 15:44 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-04-01 15:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-08-26 18:40 ` bug#2756: marked as done (move SCCS later in vc-handled-backends) Emacs bug Tracking System
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