Re: Introducing 'unrecognized and 'ignored

[Eric S. Raymond]

Dan Nicolaescu <address@hidden>:
>   > Are custom displays needed?  What would you want to use them for?
> 
> I believe so. One use for displaying no-file related information:
> repository name, branch name, the command that is being executed (all
> done by PCL-CVS). 
> 
> In the future we might want to add some widgets to select the branch to
> display. Or to the repository to connect to. Maybe display a short
> version of the logs for the last commits in the repository for the files
> that need merging. 

Dan, there are parts of the VC design about which I feel some
territoriality, but this is absolutely not one of them. The
performance of the VC-Dired code is not where I want it to be, your
arguments seem sound, and you seem well motivated to do a good job.
If you think you can rip VC-Dired out and replace it with a better and
faster ewoc-based display layer, you may do so with my blessing and
support.

I say this partly because the code structure should make this experiment
easy to back out if it fails.  But I'm not expecting it to.
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                <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>