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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] version aliases
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Tom Lord |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] version aliases |
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Mon, 5 Apr 2004 13:14:35 -0700 (PDT) |
You have to be careful if you want to propose ideas but not dig into
details. On the one hand, such input is very valuable --- it turns
up (retrospectively) easy and obvious enhancements to add. On the
other hand, you have to watch out for getting in to "you want a pony
with that?" mode..... i.e., asking for a "colorless green leaf" or a
"room temperature solid water". Good kibbitzing is hard.
-t
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> >> > Is this something you want to code up or just an idle thought?
>
> There's only a fixed number of hours per day last time I checked, so I'm
> just an Arch user and not an Arch coder for now. Sorry.
>
> >> > I.e., is it worth explaining how to go about implementing it?
>
> Not really.
>
> > Not really. Aliases would need a distinctive syntax -- perhaps a
> > prefix character. So, you wouldn't say:
> > tla get latest-emacs
> > you might say:
> > tla get :latest-emacs
>
> Well, actually given that I use `tla get' only once every blue moon, I'd
> prefer if we used more relevant examples while thinking about it.
> So how about `tla changes :latest-emacs' ?
> You might think this is nitpicking, but there is a significant difference:
> all the cases I care about are command used from within a tree.
>
> > The hard part is designing how archive-wide (for all users of a
> > certain archive), meta-archive (archives containing aliases referring
> > to other archives), and per-user aliases are stored, what they consist
> > of, which take priority, where to search for a given name, etc.
>
> As I said, I think they should be tree-wide rather than archive-wide or
> user-wide. At least, as a user, I'd like to use the same alias for
> different purposes depending on which tree I'm in.
> So I was thinking of storing them under the {arch} dir. I don't know
> whether it should be rev-controlled or not, tho. Of course, maybe we want
> all of those options, but it's probably not worth the trouble.
>
>
> Stefan
>
>
- [Gnu-arch-users] version aliases, Stefan Monnier, 2004/04/05
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: version aliases, Miles Bader, 2004/04/05
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] version aliases, Tom Lord, 2004/04/05
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] version aliases, Aaron Bentley, 2004/04/05
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] version aliases, Tom Lord, 2004/04/05
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] version aliases, Stefan Monnier, 2004/04/05
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] version aliases,
Tom Lord <=
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] version aliases, David Allouche, 2004/04/08
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] version aliases, James Blackwell, 2004/04/08
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] version aliases, Matthieu Moy, 2004/04/08
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Solid phases of ice, David Allouche, 2004/04/08
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] version aliases, Tom Lord, 2004/04/08
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] version aliases, Aaron Bentley, 2004/04/05
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] version aliases, Miles Bader, 2004/04/05
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] version aliases, Aaron Bentley, 2004/04/05
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] version aliases, Miles Bader, 2004/04/05
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] version aliases, Tom Lord, 2004/04/05