From: Simon Tournier <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludovic.courtes@inria.fr>,
"Timothy Sample" <samplet@ngyro.com>
Cc: 43442@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#43442] Subversion keyword substitution
Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2023 14:05:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <875yadgohx.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87v8imimyw.fsf@inria.fr>
Hi,
On lun., 27 mars 2023 at 11:04, Ludovic Courtès <ludovic.courtes@inria.fr> wrote:
>> It seems like there’s a direct conflict between ease of packaging and
>> ease of time travel. In the hypothetical case that a keyword mattered,
>> it would be a nasty surprise to the package author. They would have to
>> (a) discover the problem and (b) manually do the keyword substitution in
>> Scheme (or work around it).
That’s an application of the non-free lunch theorem, no? :-)
> My intuition is that the worst “problem” we might have is ‘--version’
> showing unexpanded keywords.
Somehow, I would prefer to pay the surprise by package author using
Subversion rather than not being fully reproducible over the time.
Cheers,
simon
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-04-03 16:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-16 8:14 [bug#43442] [PATCH] Fixes init of #42162: gforge.inria.fr down Dec. 2020 zimoun
2020-09-16 8:16 ` [bug#43442] [PATCH 1/2] gnu: mpfi: Replace 'url-fetch' by 'svn-fetch' zimoun
2020-09-16 8:16 ` [bug#43442] [PATCH 2/2] gnu: gmp-ecm: " zimoun
2020-09-21 21:19 ` [bug#43442] [PATCH 1/2] gnu: mpfi: " Ludovic Courtès
2020-09-21 21:51 ` zimoun
2020-09-23 16:21 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-09-23 17:07 ` zimoun
2020-09-25 8:56 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-10-01 20:26 ` zimoun
2020-10-01 21:01 ` zimoun
2020-10-03 8:59 ` Ludovic Courtès
2023-03-20 14:09 ` [bug#43442] [PATCH] Fixes init of #42162: gforge.inria.fr down Dec. 2020 Ludovic Courtès
2023-03-22 22:42 ` Timothy Sample
2023-03-24 17:22 ` [bug#43442] Subversion keyword substitution Ludovic Courtès
2023-03-24 23:31 ` Timothy Sample
2023-03-27 9:04 ` Ludovic Courtès
2023-04-03 12:05 ` Simon Tournier [this message]
2023-04-04 17:16 ` Timothy Sample
2023-04-07 16:45 ` Ludovic Courtès
2023-04-03 13:34 ` [bug#43442] [PATCH] Fixes init of #42162: gforge.inria.fr down Dec. 2020 Simon Tournier
2024-03-09 22:34 ` bug#43442: Code stored with Subversion (SVN) cannot be retrieved from SWH Ludovic Courtès
2020-09-17 8:14 ` [bug#43442] [PATCH] Fixes init of #42162: gforge.inria.fr down Dec. 2020 Ludovic Courtès
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