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Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: user-friendly hash formats, redux
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Nathaniel Smith |
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Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: user-friendly hash formats, redux |
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Tue, 7 Dec 2004 11:34:22 -0800 |
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On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 07:25:54AM -0800, Logan Sackette wrote:
> I should have stated earlier that I don't know
> anything about the implementation of a VC system. I
> am not saying this will be easy, but I think we ought
> to focus on ease of use and then ease of
> implementation. Who benefits from having something
> that is easy to implement but difficult to use?
Other people have replied talking about some of the things that make
this difficult to achieve; I'd just like to respond a bit more to this
comment.
The thing is, in a lot of cases, the answer to your question is "the
users". Partly through secondary effects -- if an implementation is
simple and clean, then that frees development time to spend on other
things; more importantly, it makes all later development easier,
faster, and less buggy, because of reduced coupling. This is a
little abstract though... the really big issue in the version
identifier debate, is that it's not clear that it's _possible_ to
implement a system like you describe, and have it be robust.
And when users _certainly_ suffer from _poor_ implementations. IMO a
system that is unpredictable and sometimes outright broken is the most
difficult to use of all...
-- Nathaniel
--
"But suppose I am not willing to claim that. For in fact pianos
are heavy, and very few persons can carry a piano all by themselves."
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- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: user-friendly hash formats, redux, Oren Ben-Kiki, 2004/12/07
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: user-friendly hash formats, redux, Jerome Fisher, 2004/12/07
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