Mike Kupfer <mike.kupfer at sun.com> writes: >>>>>> "Dean" == Dean Roehrich <Dean.Roehrich at sun.com> writes: > > Mike> If there's a name collision with Mercurial proper or a bundled > Mike> extension, I think we'll almost certainly need to change our name. > Mike> Which could be painful. > > Dean> For some of these commands I think it'll be "when", not "if". I > Dean> can't believe we would change our command name when that happens. > > Changing our command names to accommodate upstream changes involves a > bounded conversion period. It may be painful, but it's bounded. > Maintaining what is essentially a fork is ongoing pain, forever. > > Of course, the right thing to do is to arrange things so that our > subcommands are unlikely to conflict with upstream's. I'll ping the > Mercurial list sometime in the next few days about this. Though I'm not > sure how much attention I'll get with everyone focused on the upcoming > 1.0 release. :-/
We *can* just pick a uniquifying prefix now, but we lose the muscle-memory compat with wx, which is something people were eager to retain. I'm open to any and all ideas... -- Rich
