[jblack: Re: [tools-discuss] Evaluation notes on bzr-0.7]

[James Blackwell]

On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 04:09:35PM -0500, Aaron Bentley wrote:
> James Blackwell wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 03:23:24PM -0500, Aaron Bentley wrote:
> > 
> >>I think that we can make it convenient.  For example, we can have an
> >>inotify daemon that runs 'bzr edit' on every file that we modify.
> >>Fundamentally, it doesn't make sense to me that we have to tell the tool
> >>which files changed, because the OS must already know.
> > 
> > 
> > -1 on this concept. This would require documentation for installation on
> > how to install inotify daemons for any platform that we want to support
> > Bazaar-NG users on.
> 
> That's a strawman.  I never proposed that either the 'bk edit' model or
> the inotify daemon be mandatory.

Whoops. I thought you were seriously suggesting it. For a moment I thought
you were suggesting that this would be an option in Bazaar-NG, which would
leave me having to document it.


> If you want great performance on huge freakin' trees, users are going to
> have to do more work.  Either they:
> 1. specify particular files at the commandline every time
> 2. run 'bzr edit' on file they edit
> 3. teach their tools to run 'bzr edit'
> 4. set up a daemon to run 'bzr edit'.
> 
> > I've personally had problems with both gam and fam rendering my system
> > unusably unstable enough that deinstallation was necessary to in order to
> > perform basic work tasks.
> 
> So you can use option 1, 2 or 3, then.
> 
> Aaron

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