release status - land new features before monday

Martin Pool mbp at sourcefrog.net
Thu Apr 12 02:12:30 BST 2007


On 4/12/07, Ian Clatworthy <ian.clatworthy at internode.on.net> wrote:

> > I don't mind if someone wants to add that format into bzr.dev.  This
> > is the kind of situation where being able to set the three object
> > formats independently would be useful (as a stopgap, obviously we do
> > not want people to have to do that.)

https://bugs.launchpad.net/bzr/+bug/105728

> I can imagine setting the three formats separately being useful in the
> longer term as well. Like most of it's peers, Bazaar is useful out of
> the box for source code. But people being people and Bazaar being open
> source with "pluggable" formats, it will get stretched in ways we can't
> predict right now, e.g. large binary files, XML databases, CMS backends,
> text files with domain specific semantics that enable optimisations we
> could never make in the general case.

Right, it would be easier to do those plugins with bug 105728 fixed
because you'd just need to register the format, not also register a
metadir instance.

> Is it worth having a --custom option that looks up logical names in a
> registry to get the details above? By registry, a local file would do me
> (bazaar.conf say) though I'd like the syntax to support remote lookup
> down the track.

There's already a registry for each format and we could would just
look them up by name in that.  I don't understand what else is needed?

-- 
Martin



More information about the bazaar mailing list