Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: bash completion

[Richard Levitte]

In message <address@hidden> on Thu, 18 Nov 2010 15:43:26 +0100, Thomas Keller 
<address@hidden> said:

me> Am 18.11.2010 11:14, schrieb Richard Levitte:
me> > Heh, thanks :-)
me> > 
me> > I've been thinking along the same line of thoughts, and will probably
me> > do something like that within a few days.
me> > 
me> > BTW, it almost sounds like you'd like it to become a part of the
me> > regular distribution rather than a contrib thingy...
me> 
me> Yes, because I think we have lots of useful things hidden in contrib/
me> people don't really know of and some of these things are so useful that
me> we should even try to install them by default if detected.
me> 
me> This also pushes us to constantly improve these things (compatibility
me> and functionality-wise) and not overgo / ignore them because "hey,
me> they're just in contrib". Of course we cannot support every little lua
me> hook script use case, but the most important ones (mail notification is
me> one for example) should really just be dropped somewhere and work out of
me> the box. (Debian's monotone-server package would probably benefit from
me> that.)

The trouble is to write good tests for them...  I'm sure it can be
done, but it still needs doing.  In any case, I agree, and I'm trying
to work my way through the contrib directory to see what can be good
for supported inclusion.

Cheers,
Richard

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