On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 23:26 +0100, Adeodato Simó wrote: > * martin f krafft [Thu, 30 Oct 2008 11:07:28 +0100]: > > > also sprach David Futcher <bobbo@ubuntu.com> [2008.10.30.1044 +0100]: > > > This is mainly an ease of use/usability thing. Ubuntu is trying to > > > move to using bzr (and only bzr) for managing packages. Part of > > > our freeze exception process requires a diffstat of the patch, so > > > the idea was to make creating diffstats from bzr branches as easy > > > (and as integrated) as possible. > > > Doesn't bzr have aliases? Wouldn't it be better to recommend > > patchutils and use its diffstat with a pipe? bzr-diffstat appears in the bzr help, rather than needing people to read up on how to configure it etc. > I don't think bzr has support for shelling out in aliases, a-la-git. We could add that easily enough, but its not very useful for windows users; and many F/L/OSS projects do have developers on windows nowadays, so their developer documentation and toolchain needs good answers for windows. > > Part of the packaging process is to make those decisions, even if > > others disagree. I am by no means an authority, but I do think that > > this could be solved in a more Unix-y fashion. I hope you'll find > > some time to consider it and make the right decision. > > I think packaging involves some similar decicions, in particular one > should try to avoid packaging crap. As for non Unix-y stuff, it should > be up to packages who care, IMHO. :-) In this particular case, I think the diffstat functionality will be incorporated into bzr's core soon anyhow. -Rob -- GPG key available at: <http://www.robertcollins.net/keys.txt>.
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