Eric Kow <[email protected]> writes: > Is it too early for us to do this? Am I being too eager? Also, what am I > missing > in these patches? What could go wrong? Thanks! > > Fri Mar 13 10:29:48 GMT 2009 Eric Kow <[email protected]> > * Remove support for calling wget/curl on the command line.
I feel that if this is done, at compile time Darcs must insist on finding at least one HTTP client library. I don't think it should be possible to build a Darcs binary that cannot do a get or pull from an HTTP URL. If that proviso is met, I have no problem with dropping support for calling wget(1) as a separate process. As we saw last week, it's currently easy for an end user to accidentally compile Darcs without any HTTP client library, and still have it work by forking wget for each GET. But because this compilation case is rarely tested and is not optimized, the end result is a poor user experience. Worse, it's not clear to the user that Darcs is being slow because of the compile-time options rather than inherent suck in Darcs. _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
