On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 5:51 PM, Eric Kow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 17:41:45 +0100, Josef Svenningsson wrote: >> > - server commands - darcs transfer-mode in particular >> > >> I should perhaps clarify my general position a bit more here. The >> problem is not in hiding commands, it is in hiding functionality. >> Hiding aliases and stubs I don't see as a (big) problem. It is when >> the user finds out that in order to achieve certain things he has to >> delve into this secret cave of hidden functionality which is a >> confusing thing. Therefore my personal preference would be for the >> server commands not to be hidden. But since I don't use them (indeed I >> didn't know about the transfer-mode command until now) I don't have >> that strong an opinion in this particular case. > > Hmm, so in this case, the server command is only invoked by darcs on the > client side. We would not, for example, expect the user to call darcs > transfer-mode herself. > > In light of that, would you still want it exposed? (just so people know > it's there). > Ah, ok. No, it's fine for me to keep it hidden since we're not hiding any functionality from the user.
> For what it's worth, this is one of the reasons we keep trying to push > people into upgrading their servers to darcs 2. It provides a sort of > ssh connection sharing (via darcs transfer-mode) > Makes sense. Cheers, Josef _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list darcs-users@darcs.net http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
