[darcs-users] removing --reply option from darcs

[Guillaume Hoffmann]

Hi Ben,

I think it is safe to remove this feature for the reasons you mentionned
(and the lack of reaction too).

Thanks for working on making Darcs more maintainable!

Guillaume

El sáb., 13 de oct. de 2018 a la(s) 17:11, Ben Franksen (
ben.franksen at online.de) escribió:

> I am sending this to the users list to see if anyone is actually relying
> this feature because I would like to remove it.
>
> Darcs has since its early days supported a --reply option for the apply
> command. I think this feature has been meant for continuous integration.
> So when someone sends a patch, you can set up the email account so that
> the patch is applied automatically and then darcs will send a reply
> message. If you have also configured a posthook that runs a regression
> test suite, you can also inform the sender if something went wrong.
>
> Nice idea, especially back when darcs was young, but we live in modern
> times with web hosting of repos and continuous integration tools that
> offer this sort of functionality in a much more featureful, complete,
> and reliable way. Besides that, I think the main functionality can be
> emulated rather easily with a post-hook, though perhaps this requires
> adding a bit more information to the script via environment variables or
> some such.
>
> I would like to get rid of this part of the Darcs code because it is
> pretty obscure and non-portable and thus hard to maintain.
>
> Please give us a hands-up if this would hurt you.
>
> Cheers
> Ben
>
> _______________________________________________
> darcs-users mailing list
> darcs-users at osuosl.org
> https://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/attachments/20181107/7bbd71ba/attachment.html>