Re: removing --reply option from darcs

Thanks

I will screen Patch1742 that makes this change.

Cheers
Ben

Am 07.11.18 um 15:07 schrieb 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 (
> [email protected]) 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
>>
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