[Gnu-arch-users] Re: tla suggestions

[Matthieu Moy]

Ulf Ochsenfahrt <address@hidden> writes:

> 1. tla commit should make a revlib entry

True,

> 3. tla should show a progress bar for patch up-/download

bazaar has this kind of progress bar, but it shows a dot only for each
downloaded changeset, so, it won't solve your particular problem.

> 4. archive-mirror is buggy when I break it with ctrl-c
>
> When I archive-mirror and i break it with ctrl-c, I can't do
> archive-mirror afterwards, it always says:
>
> ** adding revision artwork--mainline--0.1--patch-1
> arch-mirror: unable to acquire revision lock (internal error in
> archive-pfs.c(pfs_lock_revision))
>     revision:
> address@hidden/artwork--mainline--0.1--patch-1

Bazaar would have told you to use

  baz lock-revision -b

Which is the right thing to do here. Since we don't have a dedicated
server, this kind of situation can anyway happen, that's life.
However, tla/baz could cleanly catch the Control-C signal and exit
cleanly.

> 5. there should be a command that does tree-lint AND changes

This is

  baz status

If you're an Emacs user, Xtla 1.1's M-x status reruns status
automatically when the tree becomes lint-clean.

> If baz solves all these

Not all, but at least, it solves the problem of "I reported this
problem 3 times and it seems all my emails went to /dev/null" most of
the time.

> and I can get a binary package for all my
> machines (debian woody on one server

Will be hard (but possible) to get something working on this one.

> - going to upgrade soon, debian
> sarge on the other, debian testing 

No problem on those.

> & windows 

Windows is still a problem with both baz and tla, but bazaar makes big
efforts to be more portable.

> on my work machine, debian
> unstable on my home machine), then I will consider to switch. I am not
> going to install python though or anything big for that matter.

python is required for bazaar-ng, but baz is 100% in C.

-- 
Matthieu