Thanks for the patch! Unfortunately, it looks like I shall not be applying it (due to Trent's observations). Please let us know or perhaps submit a new patch if you think we should act differently
On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 21:30:55 +1100, Trent W. Buck wrote: > I don't agree, because I think this directory would be more accurately > called "contrib". In other words, "here is something cool that someone > once provided, but we (the darcs developers) don't actively maintain it, > and it might fail to work or blow your foot off, and we probably can't > help fix any problems you have with it." Thus, if someone wants > something from here, they will already know what to do with it. > > For example, the zsh completion code is (according to #zsh) obsolete, > having been more actively maintained with the zsh repository (which is > apparently the norm for zsh completion scripts, unlike bash). Sounds like we should just remove it altogether then. > I'm also pretty sure that cgi/ has not been actively maintained, and > interest in it has been replaced by interest in more powerful > (github-style) web interfaces. In any case, installing them into > /usr/share/darcs/tools or similar wouldn't be useful, because CGI > scripts need to be placed in a specific directory (often chrooted, so a > symlink wouldn't suffice). I once submitted a patch <[email protected]> to do this, but David pointed out that our darcs.cgi is still more powerful than currently existing tools. Should we revisit that decision? * http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2008-August/012772.html > I don't know about update_roundup.pl or darcshoogle*, but I imagine they > are only useful for darcs.net and similar -- not end users. Right -- Eric Kow <http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Eric.Kow> PGP Key ID: 08AC04F9
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