Re: [Monotone-devel] Lua based "mtn base" for convenient sub-branch management

[Ralf S. Engelschall]

On Tue, Oct 30, 2007, Richard Levitte wrote:

> [...]
> rse+monotone-devel> Sounds really reasonable to me, especially because
> rse+monotone-devel> this way if one wishes to out-of-the-box include
> rse+monotone-devel> some of the commands in an own Lua one just have
> rse+monotone-devel> to add include("contrib/command/xxx.lua") to
> rse+monotone-devel> std_hooks.lua and the stuff will be included
> rse+monotone-devel> directly into the "mtn" command.
>
> Not sure I'd do that.  Read and heed the first few lines in
> contrib/README.  contrib/ is essentially unmaintained, except by the
> contributors themselves.  However, if we decide that some of the
> commands are worthy enough to become part of the official package,
> nothing stops us from moving them elsewhere (say, a lua-commands/ that
> isn't under contrib/?) and have them actively maintained.
> [...]

Sorry, seems like I was not clear enough in my wording. It was not my
intention that we officially include() anything from contrib/ diectly
on n.v.m. It was my intention that one _LOCALLY_ can just activate
additional functionality by adding a few include() lines. Just locally,
before building the own "mtn" binary.

                                       Ralf S. Engelschall
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