From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.4 required=5.0 tests=DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID, DKIM_VALID_AU,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED,UNPARSEABLE_RELAY autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 30235 invoked from network); 26 Nov 2021 09:44:22 -0000 Received: from zero.zsh.org (2a02:898:31:0:48:4558:7a:7368) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 26 Nov 2021 09:44:22 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=zsh.org; s=rsa-20210803; h=List-Archive:List-Owner:List-Post:List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe:List-Help:List-Id:Sender:Message-ID:Date: Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-ID:Content-Type:MIME-Version:Subject:To: References:From:In-reply-to:Reply-To:Cc:Content-Description:Resent-Date: Resent-From:Resent-Sender:Resent-To:Resent-Cc:Resent-Message-ID; bh=kIWM/fBK25fsmcTW3TMsCwTALfxnj/r7UQnjOrzt0FU=; b=ZJsrynfVkzss5lFkzBMS/2qqbf VeO/CTz+7gt75+7vMBCFUX0gvinxzni2kiW7tpMnWD88KefUuzjRpmNlOdkZoqDlSKcKI9a/71EoV MPw+d/0Mc9o4Re+dFsSBYAariYCivEbuf1Y2+Y9jMrdBiR1CUoIHmV+MdzyyyeBzDgKHpFPAumxrf +nTDqZ8B4NeR3nDLA/MRrwdPOpka5yz0N+Ti57dZv7ZVVerk/t7RN93mTj4lTL808OWNBQGZzQrZg ydDukVCH/khQwA44Iys/PgULEuaI2ixRBxd8U2YQCs4pxfkPxmpc3MW06lpHftxhJBMbRDumueGz9 2tqp4W6A==; Received: from authenticated user by zero.zsh.org with local id 1mqXmI-000Gb7-1V; Fri, 26 Nov 2021 09:44:22 +0000 Received: from authenticated user by zero.zsh.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.3:TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) id 1mqXl6-000GI6-Sn; Fri, 26 Nov 2021 09:43:09 +0000 Received: from [192.168.178.21] (helo=hydra) by mail.kiddle.eu with esmtp(Exim 4.94.2) (envelope-from ) id 1mqXl6-000Nw7-H2; Fri, 26 Nov 2021 10:43:08 +0100 In-reply-to: <20211126080927.GA15802@tarpaulin.shahaf.local2> From: Oliver Kiddle References: <20210604061421.172899-1-mezin.alexander@gmail.com> <20211126080927.GA15802@tarpaulin.shahaf.local2> To: Aleksandr Mezin , zsh-workers@zsh.org Subject: Re: RFC: Remove vcs_info backends cdv, svk, tla? (was: Re: [PATCH v5] vcs_info: choose backend by basedir) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-ID: <92013.1637919788.1@hydra> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2021 10:43:08 +0100 Message-ID: <92014-1637919788.524782@_epd.S6OP.yKlJ> X-Seq: 49605 Archived-At: X-Loop: zsh-workers@zsh.org Errors-To: zsh-workers-owner@zsh.org Precedence: list Precedence: bulk Sender: zsh-workers-request@zsh.org X-no-archive: yes List-Id: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Owner: List-Archive: Daniel Shahaf wrote: > Aleksandr Mezin wrote on Fri, Jun 04, 2021 at 12:14:21 +0600: > > + # * Backends using VCS_INFO_bydir_detect: > > + # bzr, cdv, darcs, fossil, hg, mtn, p4, svn I don't think bazaar and monotone are exactly still in wide use either. Bazaar appears to have had a fork (breezy) for Python 3. > There's https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gnu-arch/. It says tla is > "decommissioned" and hasn't had a release in 16 years. There's also It is still packaged in a few distributions but otherwise all signs are that it is fairly long dead. > Does anyone still use svk? It was a "distributed version control for > Subversion" thing (https://metacpan.org/dist/SVK), but: I attempted to use it at the time and found it to be more trouble than it was worth. git-svn was a much better replacement. I really can't imagine anyone has stuck with it ever since. > The cdv, svk, tla backends presumably have no remaining users; having > them at all imposes extra costs on people making «vcs_info»-wide changes; > and if we remove them, we can always recover them from history if they > turn out to have users after all. I agree. > So, shall we remove these three backends? In my view, yes. Oliver