From: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
To: "John S. Yates, Jr." <john@yates-sheets.org>
Cc: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@snark.thyrsus.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Slow merge of vc.el begins: "focus version"
Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2007 09:55:51 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071006135551.GA15072@thyrsus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jm1fg3t07msbh26kr304pd4klsbj0dd852@4ax.com>
John S. Yates, Jr. <john@yates-sheets.org>:
> Given that the various supported vc backend use different terminology
> I would to see a table listing emacs vc concepts and terms with the
> corresponding terminology for each backend.
Good idea. You could probably develop such a table without
much difficulty, and I encourage you to do so.
It's not good for the long-term maintainence prospects of the mode
that so few people understand this mapping of abstractions well.
At the moment the set consists of myself and, probably, Stefan Monnier.
A third would be a good thing.
--
<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-06 13:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-06 8:32 Slow merge of vc.el begins: "focus version" Eric S. Raymond
2007-10-06 10:03 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2007-10-06 13:09 ` John S. Yates, Jr.
2007-10-06 13:55 ` Eric S. Raymond [this message]
2007-10-06 22:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-10-06 22:05 ` Stefan Monnier
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