From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: your vc-hg.el change Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 13:01:08 -0500 Message-ID: <87d4glypej.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> References: <200811221752.mAMHqCqK020038@mothra.ics.uci.edu> <18730.23018.15596.789141@fencepost.gnu.org> <87od05azpk.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1227555218 8239 80.91.229.12 (24 Nov 2008 19:33:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 19:33:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Dan Nicolaescu , Emacs developers To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 24 20:34:41 2008 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 1L4hCa-0008DL-Ue for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 24 Nov 2008 20:34:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53419 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L4hBR-0004Kg-Ls for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 24 Nov 2008 14:33:21 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L4fjz-0004nH-77 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Nov 2008 13:00:55 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L4fjv-0004mi-Nx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Nov 2008 13:00:53 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=56993 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L4fju-0004mY-4Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Nov 2008 13:00:50 -0500 Original-Received: from cyd.mit.edu ([18.115.2.24]:36173) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L4fjt-0001ej-0C; Mon, 24 Nov 2008 13:00:49 -0500 Original-Received: by cyd.mit.edu (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 3E5CF57E1C8; Mon, 24 Nov 2008 13:01:08 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Glenn Morris's message of "Mon, 24 Nov 2008 12:15:24 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:106105 Archived-At: Glenn Morris writes: >> when there is no equivalent in the other VC backends. > > Apart from arch, svn, and bzr. Aha, I didn't see those. It's certainly unfortunate that this kind of discrepancy exists between the various VC backends, and this needs to be cleaned up. (A related problem: the different options that provide diff-switches for the various backends.) Actually, I thought of one other reason not to hardcode VC commands. Some distributions are in the habit of providing different versions of certain programs under different executable names, e.g. Debian provides gcc-4.1, gcc-4.2, gcc-4.3; "gcc" itself is a symlink to the latest installed version, but you can use the other executables if you wish. But I don't think this currently applies to any VC system, as far as I know (again, I haven't checked for all the different VC systems). However, this is not an urgent matter, so let's leave matters as they stand, with the vc-hg change reverted. We can come back to this after the release.