On Wed, 2010-08-18, C. Michael Pilato wrote:
> What's the status of obliterate?
Heh. I started down a path that looked promising initially but became
ever more difficult. The parts that are checked in are the easy parts -
hook script support and some ability to remove node-revs from the
repository in only a really trivial case that's not often useful. Now
that I'm concentrating on the essential WC-NG task, reluctantly I have
left this work aside.
Philip Martin had a good idea for doing a simpler kind of obliteration,
tried out on the "obliterate-like-deltify" branch, which works in what
it does and appears to be more likely to be feasible to implement fully.
That certainly deserves more attention.
> I get the sense that it exists in our codebase, for all practical purposes,
> in name only. If that's true, and if that's the state it's expected to be
> in when 1.7 ships, then I'd really, really like to just see the feature not
> ship at all. We don't have to can all the code, but certainly de-publicize
> the lot of it (no pre-obliterate.tmpl hook creation, no obliterate-related
> public APIs, etc.)
>
> Some might say I'm letting the perfect be the enemy of the good, here. I'd
> disagree, but openly admit that I'm trying to let the tolerable be the enemy
> of the barely-working.
>
> But maybe I'm misremembering the current utility of the feature?
You're about spot on. It's not in a fit state to release and I'm no
longer working on it.
I'll go and pull the existing code out some time in the next few weeks.
We can always resurrect any parts of it that we want to work on again.
- Julian
Received on 2010-08-18 17:12:17 CEST