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From: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
To: Ivan Shmakov <ivan@siamics.net>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: My plans for VC mode
Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2014 15:10:38 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141123201038.GA29187@thyrsus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k32lu37s.fsf@violet.siamics.net>

Ivan Shmakov <ivan@siamics.net>:
> 	At the very least, I hope that the calling conventions for the
> 	most basic interface functions my backend provides (including
> 	registered, state, working-revision, find-revision, checkin,
> 	print-log) are changed in a kind of a compatible way.  (For
> 	instance, I could easily make ‘state’ also accept a list of
> 	files instead of just a single one.  Or so I hope, anyway.)
> 
> 	Otherwise, I’d rather appreciate if the updated interface could
> 	use some entirely new function names where the semantics changes
> 	drastically, so that I can provide functions implementing both
> 	the old and the new interface.  (I do not think it’s necessary
> 	for the new VC to support the old interface in this case.)

These are completely reasonable requests, and I will attempt to
fulfill them.
-- 
		<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>



  reply	other threads:[~2014-11-23 20:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-22 13:33 My plans for VC mode Unknown
2014-11-22 14:17 ` Jan D.
2014-11-22 16:29   ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-11-22 16:44     ` Jan D.
2014-11-22 14:33 ` Dmitry Gutov
2014-11-22 16:37   ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-11-22 17:46     ` Dmitry Gutov
2014-11-22 18:08       ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-11-23  1:27         ` Dmitry Gutov
2014-11-22 22:32       ` Stefan Monnier
2014-11-23  1:01         ` Dmitry Gutov
2014-11-23  6:25         ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-11-22 23:17   ` Steinar Bang
2014-11-23 20:02     ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-11-23 20:11       ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-22 16:11 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-11-22 16:41   ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-11-22 16:59     ` Dieter Deyke
2014-11-22 22:34     ` Stefan Monnier
2014-11-23 19:58       ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-11-24  6:40         ` Dieter Deyke
2014-11-24  7:50           ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-11-24  7:55             ` Kan-Ru Chen (陳侃如)
2014-11-24  8:07               ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-11-24 14:33         ` Stefan Monnier
2014-11-24 17:57           ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-11-23 19:27     ` Ivan Shmakov
2014-11-23 20:10       ` Eric S. Raymond [this message]
2014-11-22 19:02 ` Michael Albinus
2014-11-23  6:26   ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-11-23  8:23     ` Michael Albinus

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