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From: Clint Adams <clint@zsh.org>
To: Felix Rosencrantz <f.rosencrantz@gmail.com>
Cc: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk, mdz@canonical.com, robert.collins@canonical.com
Subject: Re: [mdz@canonical.com: Bug#285745: Completion for baz]
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 22:23:37 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041216032337.GA11949@scowler.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <dc507f4a041215184718aef5e6@mail.gmail.com>

> What is baz?  Some quick web searches didn't really turn anything up.

I believe that it is the binary name of the software described at
http://bazaar.canonical.com/ .  I've never used it.

> It sounds like it is an offshoot of Tom Lord's Arch.  The _larch
> completion was something I generated based on the help output from the
> Tom Lord's arch tool back in 2002.   It looks like _tla might be the
> better completion function for arch now.  It was added in 2004.  So it
> seems like _larch should be removed from the distribution. It's large,
> and doesn't seem like it would be used by folks. (correct me if I'm
> wrong)

larch was the original implementation of Arch, thusly named because
there's already an 'arch' binary present on most systems.  It was a
shell script and some C programs reimplementing FTP and whatnot.  I've
never used it.

> I'm not too familiar arch, and any offshoots. So if tla, larch, and 
> baz are all different flavors of arch, it would make sense to somehow
> combine then. If there are a bunch of flavors of this tool, it would
> be nice if someone could give a good pointer.

It looks as though baz is diverging from tla in terms of UI as well as
archive format.  ArX ( http://www.nongnu.org/arx/ ), which I have also
never used, is a fork of tla that I believe is completely incompatible
by this point.  I believe that there have been other Arch forks and
reimplementations, but I can't think of any of their names.

Canonical guys should feel free to correct me on any of this.


  reply	other threads:[~2004-12-16  3:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-12-15 17:23 Clint Adams
2004-12-16  2:47 ` Felix Rosencrantz
2004-12-16  3:23   ` Clint Adams [this message]
2004-12-16  8:01     ` Robert Collins

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