On Feb 5, 2008 4:22 PM, David Roundy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 07:30:33PM +0100, Alexander Staubo wrote: > > I would love to see someone use kernel facilities such as FSEvents [1] on > > OS X and inotify [2] on Linux to accomplish this. (There are also others > > such as fam [3], and Windows has its own easy-to-use API.) > > One nice thing about this feature is that as far as I can tell, there's > essentially no benefit to implementing it in darcs. You could implement it > in any language for any platform, and all you need to do is call darcs mv > whenever you detect a file rename in a darcs repository.
True, but tighter integration with Darcs would mean a smoother user experience. I would rather have such a monitoring system be subservient of Darcs rather than an active player, which makes the separation of concerns cleaner: the monitor exists to gather information, and Darcs uses that information; and I would prefer to know about the existence of the monitor as long as Darcs is able to control it. But you're right, it could be implemented either way. Alexander. _______________________________________________ darcs-devel mailing list darcs-devel@darcs.net http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-devel
