From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juliusz Chroboczek Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Including vc-darcs in Emacs Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2005 05:51:26 +0100 Message-ID: <7ik6eki1td.fsf@lanthane.pps.jussieu.fr> References: <873bl8esrd.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> <87oe3wb5f1.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1133758480 32672 80.91.229.2 (5 Dec 2005 04:54:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2005 04:54:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, forcer@forcix.cx Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 05 05:54:36 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ej8ML-0003CH-Nn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 Dec 2005 05:53:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ej8MQ-0007jw-3Z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 04 Dec 2005 23:53:58 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ej8KG-0006KX-0q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Dec 2005 23:51:44 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ej8KF-0006KF-7B for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Dec 2005 23:51:43 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ej8KF-0006K8-0G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Dec 2005 23:51:43 -0500 Original-Received: from [134.157.0.129] (helo=shiva.jussieu.fr) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Ej8Kf-0001Lq-1K; Sun, 04 Dec 2005 23:52:09 -0500 Original-Received: from hydrogene.pps.jussieu.fr (hydrogene.pps.jussieu.fr [134.157.168.1]) by shiva.jussieu.fr (8.13.5/jtpda-5.4) with ESMTP id jB54pTuD011110 ; Mon, 5 Dec 2005 05:51:29 +0100 (CET) X-Ids: 168 Original-Received: from lanthane.pps.jussieu.fr (lanthane.pps.jussieu.fr [134.157.168.57]) by hydrogene.pps.jussieu.fr (8.13.4/jtpda-5.4) with ESMTP id jB54pRpH014587 ; Mon, 5 Dec 2005 05:51:27 +0100 Original-Received: from jch by lanthane.pps.jussieu.fr with local (Exim 4.54) id 1Ej8Jz-0002ap-0m; Mon, 05 Dec 2005 05:51:27 +0100 Original-To: Stefan Monnier In-Reply-To: <87oe3wb5f1.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Sun, 04 Dec 2005 22:18:16 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-1.7.2 (shiva.jussieu.fr [134.157.0.168]); Mon, 05 Dec 2005 05:51:29 +0100 (CET) X-Antivirus: scanned by sophie at shiva.jussieu.fr X-Miltered: at shiva.jussieu.fr with ID 4393C751.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:46988 Archived-At: >> I am not necessarily against it, but could you tell me what vc-darcs does? Darcs is a Free (GPL) distributed version control system used by a significant number of Free software projects. For example, all of Debian's Common Lisp packages are maintained with Darcs. For more about Darcs, please see http://www.darcs.net . vc-darcs is a Darcs backend for Emacs' VC. It's not quite complete, as VC hardwires a number of assumptions that are not true with Darcs, but it works well enough in practice. There are a few small changes to VC's core that would make vc-darcs much better, so I'd be grateful if you could put me in touch with VC's maintainer. Juliusz