Re: [Monotone-devel] [PATCH] mtn publish

2006-12-22 Thread Nathaniel J. Smith
On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 10:25:35AM -0500, Ben Walton wrote: I don't want the clients seeing _MTN/*. I accept your assertion, but am curious about your reasons :-). It seems like _MTN/* takes completely negligible space, and provides potentially valuable information? I realize that this could

Re: [Monotone-devel] [PATCH] mtn automate set_option

2006-12-22 Thread Nathaniel J. Smith
On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 03:04:22PM -0500, Ben Walton wrote: I cooked this up today as a corollary to get_option. I hope it's useful. So, umm... before investing time in reviewing the patch, rewriting internal interfaces, answering future support questions, etc... _do_ you have any ideas where

Re: [Monotone-devel] [PATCH] mtn automate set_option

2006-12-22 Thread Thomas Keller
Nathaniel J. Smith schrieb: On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 03:04:22PM -0500, Ben Walton wrote: I cooked this up today as a corollary to get_option. I hope it's useful. So, umm... before investing time in reviewing the patch, rewriting internal interfaces, answering future support questions, etc...

Re: [Monotone-devel] question regarding stdio and streams

2006-12-22 Thread Nathaniel J. Smith
On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 08:47:32AM +0100, Thomas Keller wrote: Nathaniel J. Smith schrieb: If you want to include the information into automate stdio's stdout stream, you need to multiplex it in somehow, and I don't have any particular opinion on what the best way would be to write such

Re: [Monotone-devel] question regarding stdio and streams

2006-12-22 Thread Thomas Keller
Nathaniel J. Smith schrieb: I'm afraid this is rather hypothetical for me to have anything useful to say. If you just want to be able to take arbitrary text from monotone and dump it at the user, I suppose capturing stderr is not too hard either... Yes, of course, but then I think stderr in

Re: [Monotone-devel] [PATCH] mtn publish

2006-12-22 Thread Ben Walton
On 12/22/06, Nathaniel J. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 10:25:35AM -0500, Ben Walton wrote: I don't want the clients seeing _MTN/*. I accept your assertion, but am curious about your reasons :-). It seems like _MTN/* takes completely negligible space, and provides

Re: [Monotone-devel] [PATCH] mtn automate set_option

2006-12-22 Thread Ben Walton
Yah, I'm new, but I may be missing the point a little still. When thinking in the context of wrapping mtn in a gui (the whole point of the automate commands), isn't it desirable to have a programmatic interface to things like the options file? It's not a mainstream, everyday feature by any

Re: [Monotone-devel] [PATCH] mtn automate set_option

2006-12-22 Thread Nathaniel J. Smith
On Sat, Dec 23, 2006 at 01:22:21AM +0100, Thomas Keller wrote: Don't get me wrong, but how is he supposed to know that? Well, because I just told him :-). Maybe he will find the information useful, maybe not. I guess there are a few possible outcomes. Maybe neither Ben nor anyone else