Re: Version control support call for help

[Kai Willadsen <kai willadsen gmail com>]

On 18 May 2013 10:41, Kai Willadsen <kai willadsen gmail com> wrote:
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> [0] And looking through things, I've now noticed that we still
> 'support' Codeville and Arch, neither of which really exist anymore,
> so that's... nice. Expect these plugins to disappear Real Soon Now
> unless someone steps up to take them.

These modules are now no longer with us.

Of the version control systems that Meld supports, the following are
Expected To Work:
 * Git
 * Mercurial
 * Bazaar
 * Subversion

We also have:
 * Fossil - Relatively new and looks okay, but it needs to use newer Meld API.
 * SVK - As long as it just works like SVN it can stay.

And in the totally-unmaintained column:
 * Monotone - Our 'interface version' support is 9.0, and they're at 13.0. I
   have no idea whether anyone is using this or whether it works.
 * Darcs - Our module code looks okay, but I have no idea what its status is.
 * CVS - I guess people still use this? It doesn't support *any* modern VC
   capabilities, and is becoming increasingly difficult to deal with.
 * RCS - Really?

Our Monotone and Darcs modules haven't been touched by anyone who actually
uses them in *four years*. It's two or three years for CVS and RCS.

One of my goals for 1.7.4 is to migrate all VC modules to get rid of the
diff-then-patch approach to getting repository versions of files, and I'm
not above removing support for the above systems in order to get there. I'd
like to support as wide a range of systems as possible, but right now it's
just not happening.

If you use any of the above, then please make noise now.

cheers,
Kai