Re: Version control support call for help

[Chuck Tuffli <chuck tuffli net>]

On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 1:35 PM, Kai Willadsen <kai willadsen gmail com> wrote:
...
> Oh, it's definitely followable. Your confusion is 100% warranted. I
> think you're starting to see why I'm so scared of our VC subsystem.
>
> We don't have a documented API. Even if we *did* have an API, most of
> these modules were created by someone copying another module and
> munging things until they worked. So even if there was originally an
> implicit API, it's long since died and we're left with a hunk of stuff
> that mostly works but OH GOD DON'T TOUCH IT.
>
> So when I say that we should leave this stuff working the way it works
> now and come up with a *completely new parallel API* that makes
> sense... this is why.

I have written a VC module for Veracity that I'd eventually like to
contribute. It works for the day-to-day stuff I do, but it is by no
means complete. So if you come up with a VC API, I'd be happy to be a
guinea pig and re-implement what I have to use the new API plus round
out the capabilities and get it ready for prime-time.

--chuck