Re: The VC to-do list

["Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>]

Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>:
> "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@snark.thyrsus.com> writes:
> 
>> (1) ;; - vc-dir-kill-dir-status-process should not be specific to dir-status,
>> ;;   it should work for other async commands as well (pull/push/...).
>> 
>> Agreed.  Even the async diff code is in this category
>> 
>> Dan, the near term VC-specific fix for this one should probably be
>> yours, if you can find time to do it; I don't understand the ewoc
>> interface well enough yet, and there are other things I should do to
>> VC that are more urgent than learning ewoc.  Like item (2).
> 
> This is actually Stefan's addition.  It shouldn't be too hard to fix:
> all the asynchronous commands need a buffer to run in, just find a way
> to keep track of that buffer and kill it+the associated process when
> necessary.

Agreed.  The dispatcher layer I'm thinking about splitting out would need
this as a generic facility anyway.
 
>   > (11) ;; - add a mechanism for ignoring files.
>   > 
>   > I'm not clear why.  Under what circumstances do we need this when
>   > the VCS doesn't do it for us?
> 
> This is about adding a way to tell the VCS to ignore certain files.

Right; am rewording the to-do appropriately.
 
>> (23) ;; - vc-dir listing needs a footer generated when it's done to make it
>> ;; obvious that it has finished.
>> 
>> This is totally a ewoc interface issue.  Yours, Dan, I think.
> 
> I'm not convinced it's useful, the mode-line displays [Waiting...] when
> something is going on.

Really?  I didn't notice that...which tells its own story.
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