Bug#412724: ITP: hg-buildpackage -- Suite to help with Debian packages in Mercurial archives
Hi!
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 03:40:59PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote:
> but I am happy to collaborate with you both. It looks like you both
> have implemehted mq support, which I haven't. On the other hand, I
> have implemented importing of .dsc files as well as orig.tar.gz files,
> and work with vanilla Mercurial. That is, I think my code is more
> oriented towards history management while yours is more oriented
> towards patch management. Both are useful and there could be room for
> code sharing.
>
> My hg-buildpackage is written entirely with bash, though it is based
> on my darcs-buildpackage which was written in Haskell.
[John has rewritten hg-buildpackage in Haskell in the meantime]
> If either of you are interested in contributing to a unified package,
> let's talk and see what we can do and if our visionsfor this tool can
> be reconciled. If so, I'd have no problem adding you as uploaders.
John, I've just found the time to look at your implementation. I'd love
to see a full-fledged hg-buildpackage in Debian. As mq support is
essential to my current workflow, I'm also willing to invest some time
into merging this feature into your implementation. Unfortunately, my
enthusiasm doesn't go as far as to learn a new programming language to
this end, so your switch to Haskell essentially cuts me out.
(Incidentially, not being able to fix problems myself was one of the
reasons that drove me off darcs and darcs-buildpackage.) That said, I'm
quite sure that Haskell is a nifty language and certainly understand
your reasons to prefer it. But currently, I'm lacking the time to wrap
my brain around monads and therefore don't think I'll be able to
collaborate on your project.
Regards,
Daniel.
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