[ sorry for the late reply ] Mikhael Goikhman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On 03 Aug 2005 00:45:48 +0200, Matthieu Moy wrote: >> >> I'm now convinced we have to let abrowse in 1.5. It's currently >> obsoleted in the sense "not in the output of baz help, and displays a >> warning stating that it will be removed". Newcomers will learn to use >> browse, which is the way of the future, while long time users will >> almost not see the difference. > > I disagree. I think many people here have archives in the non-flat format > (I have). From my point of view a new "browse" command: > > * removes the functionality that we extensively use in arch-magic > * is less clean (should always append "--" to get predictable results) > * is slower (50 seconds rbrowse vus 30 seconds abrowse for my archive; > queries with limit may be even more slow, 30 sec vus 10 sec) I've identified and fixed another performance issue in browse. with no limit, "browse" is now as fast as "abrowse" (there's still a small performance overhead when using a limit, with a tla 1.0 archive). > Please leave abrowse as-is during 2005 and do not add any warning to it. The warning is just one line, sent to stderr, so, it doesn't harm. The problem is that the upcomming namespace change might mean rewritting abrowse almost from scratch, and I don't think anyone is willing to do it (if you are, then I'm OK to remove the warning). This means abrowse will be in 1.5, but may well have to be dropped for 1.6. More generally, we have to discuss and anticipate what the new namespace will look like before releasing the 1.5, so that we can push the users towards the new way to do. (I also think we need some kind of categorization and filtering, but the a/c--b--v is too rigid. I don't like it and many other users don't like it either) > I'd still prefer these problems to be solved at some point. I am also > fine with not removing a more functional browse also has features that abrowse doesn't have. One is not "more functional", just different. -- Matthieu _______________________________________________ Gnu-arch-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-arch-users GNU arch home page: http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gnu-arch/
