On Monday, May 24, 2004 at 13:07:57, Matthieu Moy wrote:
> Robert Widhopf-Fenk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > On Friday, May 21, 2004 at 11:07:44, Masatake YAMATO wrote:
> >> > I cannot find a location where it is actually used.
> >> >
> >> > IMHO the "partner" functionality might be even removed as
> >> > bookmarks are more powerful/user-friendly.
> >> >
> >> > Robert.
> >>
> >> I'm sorry but to tell the truth, I have not tried bookmark yet.
> >> My xtla development process is still depends on partner
> >> functionality. `tla-partner-popup-menu' written by me is for
> >> future use.
>
> You should ;-)
>
> > Well, I will not remove it, but you know the discussion
> > about fighting features? IMHO we should provide just one
> > way/interface to the same functionality. This decreases the
> > code that must be maintained, might be more stable and new
> > users have a clear way where to go in order to do XY.
>
> I had a discussion about that with Aaron Bentley, author of aba. (in
> Cc of this message)
>
> The bookmark feature is nice. But:
>
> * This is an Emacs-only feature.
>
> * The bookmark contents is managed on a per-user basis. It's nice,
> but we should also provide a way to manage this on a per-project
> basis. The typical scenario is:
>
> - A new developer joins the team
>
> - He gets the list of archives+version from the project itself
>
> - He can add his own
>
> - On his side, he may want to use a superset/subset of the set of
> versions suggested by the archive.
>
> => We would like to set up a convention for several (all ?) tla
> front-ends:
>
> * The file {arch}/=partner-versions should be a list of newline
> separated version names. It is added in the archive.
>
> * The file {arch}/++my-partner-versions is also a list of newline
> separated version names, but is not added in the archive.
>
> * The front-end should use {arch}/++my-partner-versions as a list of
> partners, if the file exists, and if not, use
> {arch}/=partner-versions.
>
> That's for the general convention. For the particular case of xtla's
> bookmarks, I think we can keep the bookmark-missing feature as it
> is, and provide a function to initialise the list of partners from
> those files.
It is reasonable to use the same conventions and I would
also do it as proposed, i.e. import it into bookmarks.
So my answer is: YES, YES.
Bye Robert
