Re: Emacs VC Subversion back end: release early, release often

Eric Gillespie <epg@pretzelnet.org> writes:
> Jim Blandy <jimb@red-bean.com> writes:
> > Since VC has a reasonably well-defined interface to its back ends,
> > adding a Subversion back end there was simply the shortest path to
> > getting something working.
>
> Sure, i didn't mean to disparage your work, only to beg for pcl-cvs
> rewrite as well :).

Ahh, well, now that you put it *that* way... Yeah.

> I use vc-version-other-window, vc-next-action
> (to commit) all the time.
>
> Now expanding the vc system to be able to provide what the pcl-cvs
> interface needs and rewriting pcl-cvs to use that functinality,
> thereby getting M-x svn-update practically for free... :)

That's an interesting idea. So the VC back end interface becomes the
universal back end interface for all the version control interface
packages.

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Received on Tue Jul 16 01:30:25 2002