From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
To: esr@thyrsus.com
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: My plans for VC mode
Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2014 03:27:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <54713804.3070906@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141122180845.GA27863@thyrsus.com>
On 11/22/2014 08:08 PM, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> It's better than keeping the functions separate because the
> separation contributes in a significant way to making the
> interface a hairball that is difficult to understand and maintain.
Would that make the combined function's description shorter than the
current `dir-status' one, in vc.el header? If yes, how?
I suspect that would make the details from `dir-status-files' get lost
in the noise, whereas I like its "report on all requested files"
semantics (here's why:
https://github.com/dgutov/diff-hl/issues/25#issuecomment-57107335).
Even now, when the description is separate, almost every backend I tried
currently fails to adhere to it in some respect, see
http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=18579#5 and
http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=18579#59.
> I should have been able to write SRC support in 90 minutes. The fact
> that it took the inventor of both SRC and VC mode *two days* told
> me the API has gone very badly wrong.
Some things are just hard. And, backwards compatibility aside, usually
we don't want to discard existing features.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-23 1:27 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 [this message]
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
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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