From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eric S. Raymond" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Ready to start serious work on VC mode again Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 12:01:19 -0400 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs Message-ID: <20080501160119.GA21790@thyrsus.com> References: <20080428181932.5BD019F0434@snark.thyrsus.com> <854p9jpm2y.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <20080501080904.GB14751@thyrsus.com> <18457.36102.720419.984180@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> Reply-To: esr@thyrsus.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1209658041 30334 80.91.229.12 (1 May 2008 16:07:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 16:07:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Eric S. Raymond" , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Nick Roberts Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 01 18:07:47 2008 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JrbJQ-0004gi-Dc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 May 2008 18:07:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:32979 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JrbIj-0005tN-9w for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 May 2008 12:06:29 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JrbDV-0001By-Pr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 May 2008 12:01:05 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JrbDT-0001BK-Uj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 May 2008 12:01:05 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=50551 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JrbDT-0001B2-Ho for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 May 2008 12:01:03 -0400 Original-Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5] helo=snark.thyrsus.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JrbDQ-0000Zf-0R; Thu, 01 May 2008 12:01:00 -0400 Original-Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 4BC9A9F04FC; Thu, 1 May 2008 12:01:19 -0400 (EDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <18457.36102.720419.984180@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17+20080114 (2008-01-14) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Greylist: delayed 26193 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at monty-python; Thu, 01 May 2008 12:00:59 EDT 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:96279 Archived-At: Nick Roberts : > > Actually, the fact that this is the only "known, urgent" bug report > > I've received is encouraging. Multiple back ends is kind of a wacky > > edge case; if this is the worst problem VC currently has, it's in > > *good* shape. > > I've not followed VC development closely but surely this can't be right. Dan > (or someone else) has placed a whole load of TODO items in vc.el. I still use > vc-dired instead of vc-dir because it doesn't respect > vc-stay-local/vc-cvs-stay-local. You will also find issues in the archives, > e.g., > > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-04/msg00664.html Noted. I've added both these items to the TODO in my copy; I'll be tackling some of the more obvious fixes today and tomorrow. -- Eric S. Raymond