Hi,
On Dec 31, 2005, at 3:30 PM, Alberto Bertogli wrote:
On Sat, Dec 31, 2005 at 11:37:48AM +0000, Pedro Melo wrote:
I don't know of any other darcs third-party application that stores
data
in the _darcs directory, but it'd be nice if we all followed some
kind of
convention. I'm happy with David's proposal, but before using it in
the
wild, it'd be nice to have some feedback.
My suggestion:
- _darcs/third_party is the base for all this;
- BASE/common can have common attributes to all applications. We
could have a wiki page as the "official" spec. Some of the attributes
would include:
- description: one line short description of the repo, plain-text;
- abstract: longer description of the project. The first line can
be a "Content-type: MIME\n\n". If not present assume text/plain;
- project_homepage: an URL
- authors (?): list of authors? Different from owner/author of
the repo sometimes.
- BASE/app_name: you own private variables.
The only thing I don't have a clear view on is if this directory
should be version-controled or not. At first I though it should. It
would make defining common parameters for all copies of the repo very
simple. But sometimes I want my parameters to be diferent from the
repo standard...
I like this approach (maybe "authors" and the mimefying of abstract is
something to talk about, but it's not so relevant yet).
Yes, just thinking ahead about what I do: I use markdown or Trac
Wiki syntax in my commit messages.
I assume that by version-controlled you mean "imported by darcs
get"? If
that's the case, I'd go for the non controlled option, because I
expect it
to be the norm. If some variable needs to be imported by darcs get,
then
it should probably be put in prefs and under darcs preference control.
cools. As I said, I didn't have a firm opinion either way.
Thanks, and have a happy new year!
Happy new year to you to.
PS: should we CC darcs-devel on this?
I don't read it, but feel free.
Best regards,
--
Pedro Melo
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