On 5/26/2009 19:57, Petr Rockai wrote:
Hi,
Simon Michael<[email protected]> writes:
Petr Rockai wrote:
- .authorspellings (Simon) -- I find this to be controversial though
Oh dear.. what would fix that ?
Well, it's a new incompatible way to dealing with repository settings. I am not
opposed to a simpler system of preferences, in fact, I'd happily abolish
setpref, since it sort of sucks anyway, but we should put up a plan or
something, since now we risk having three incompatible preference systems in
darcs, which is two too many (we had two before, which was merely one too
many).
I don't intend to put the burden on you personally, I'd just like to have some
semi-clear consensus on where to go from here before committing to this new
preference handling approach.
IIRC, the general consensus the last time this was discussed was to bend
.authorspellings to use the existing methodologies (ie, something like
darcs setpref authorspellingsfile and _darcs/prefs/authorspellings), but
was a) lacking better terminology, and b) was out of reach for the
original author's knowledge of darcs.
There was a noticeable contingent in favor of using the argument as an
excuse to entirely revise the _darcs/prefs and darcs setpref approach.
However, pragmatically such a thing should be done at a major backwards
compatibility break, so is out of the question for Darcs 2.3, but might
be something to explicitly add to the issue tracker for Darcs 3.
(Bearing in mind that Camp itself already has a somewhat different
approach to prefs files, for better or worse, and some of those choices
may effect Darcs 3 anyway, should Camp indeed prefigure Darcs 3.)
A quick search didn't turn up the original discussion (I did, however,
notice Issue 1392: use Parsec for authorspellings) so it is certainly
possible I'm misremembering.
As for problem (A): I'm certainly in favor in the idea that 'aka' might
be a better, less verbose, name. I realize that it won't be immediately
obvious what a _darcs/prefs/aka is for from name alone, but I think that
knowing it is aliases/nicknames makes it quick to grok it is a "also
known as" file. Certainly darcs setpref akafile is much nicer than darcs
setpref authorspellingsfile.
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