In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Tue, 27 Sep 2005 07:07:59 -0700, Larry Hastings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
larry> >1. it makes special cases of tags. So far, a tag is a tag is larry> > a tag. What you propose is that a tag is a tag... unless larry> > it looks this way. larry> > larry> > larry> I don't see how these tags are "special cases". Some tag values have special meaning to the program while others don't. That's what make those special cases. larry> But they work just like normal tags, because they are normal tags. I disagree with that. From a user's point of view, I don't see them as normal. larry> >2. it assumes that everyone will use m7, and completely larry> > ignores the possibility of a mixe environment, larry> > larry> > larry> As with your previous point, I fail to see how this approach larry> "ignore[s] the possibility of a mixed environment". This is under the assumption that "m7 list tags" filters the output so the localised revision number tags aren't shown, which means that monotone developpers using m7 won't be hit with 3513 (that's how many revisions there are in my monotone database right now) localised revision number tags, while those using monotone directly will get them in their faces (which they probably didn't expect or wanted). That, to me, is a significant different in user experience, and quite undesirable. larry> If you're really just restating your earlier point about "well, larry> but there'd be a lot more tags now, and that would be larry> inconvenient", then my reply is again "that's a user interface larry> issue". I'm sorry, are you saying that the users should adapt to the program? OK, sorry for all the blabering. I'll shut up about this for a while now. Cheers, Richard ----- Please consider sponsoring my work on free software. See http://www.free.lp.se/sponsoring.html for details. -- Richard Levitte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://richard.levitte.org/ "When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up." -- C.S. Lewis _______________________________________________ Monotone-devel mailing list Monotone-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/monotone-devel
