Re: [Monotone-devel] automate stdio, really

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 03:05:02PM +0200, Thomas Moschny wrote:
> Ok, this is a taboo subject, but it imho raises the mtn-library and 
> mtn-frontend(s) discussion again.

It's not a taboo discussion -- my argument downthread is basically,
the best way to get to a mtn-library/mtn-frontend split from where we
are now, is exactly what we're doing with automate.

No-one _objects_ to having a clean, safe, programmatic interface to
monotone.  But I don't think anyone wants to stop for 6 months and
rewrite everything to get there, either (and if we tried doing that,
we'd probably fail).  So the problem is how to get their
incrementally, and 'automate' does that.

-- Nathaniel

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