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: My plans for VC mode Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2014 15:10:38 -0500 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs Message-ID: <20141123201038.GA29187@thyrsus.com> References: <20141122133351.46279382C23@snark.thyrsus.com> <20141122164134.GD25909@thyrsus.com> <87k32lu37s.fsf@violet.siamics.net> Reply-To: esr@thyrsus.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1416773487 18025 80.91.229.3 (23 Nov 2014 20:11:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2014 20:11:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Ivan Shmakov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 23 21:11:22 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XsdVB-0002VS-7R for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 23 Nov 2014 21:11:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49881 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XsdVA-0007HA-DT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 23 Nov 2014 15:11:20 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44581) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XsdV3-0007Gr-VS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Nov 2014 15:11:18 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XsdUy-00037k-PB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Nov 2014 15:11:13 -0500 Original-Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5]:48456 helo=snark.thyrsus.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XsdUy-00037g-Kz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Nov 2014 15:11:08 -0500 Original-Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 76727382CCD; Sun, 23 Nov 2014 15:10:38 -0500 (EST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87k32lu37s.fsf@violet.siamics.net> X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 71.162.243.5 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:178122 Archived-At: Ivan Shmakov : > 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 =E2=80=98state=E2=80=99 also accept a li= st of > files instead of just a single one. Or so I hope, anyway.) >=20 > Otherwise, I=E2=80=99d rather appreciate if the updated interface coul= d > 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=E2=80=99s 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. --=20 Eric S. Raymond