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vc-BACKEND-program options

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Message #3 received at quiet <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: quiet <quiet <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: vc-BACKEND-program options
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 14:54:59 -0500

Severity: wishlist

Clean up the vc backends at some point so they are consistent in terms
of their usage of vc-BACKEND-program options.

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-11/msg00875.html

Message #6 received at 1429-quiet <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Norman Gray <norman <at> astro.gla.ac.uk>
To: 1429-quiet <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: your vc-hg.el change
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 10:36:22 +0000

[ Comments resent from
  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2009-01/msg00304.html ]

Greetings.

This is picking up a thread of 24 November last year[1].  Apologies: I  
missed the thread then and only re-found it in the archive now.

I was the OP for the small patch, which made the vc-hg-program  
configurable in vc-hg.el, rather than being hard-coded.  The decision  
to include or reject the patch is not mine, and I don't want to re- 
start a discussion, but I'd like to log the context I should have  
added at the time of the thread, for the record.

   * I'm using emacs on OS X here (specifically Aquamacs).  There,  
applications start as children of a daemon which is not a child of the  
login process, so adjusting the path that they see is slightly  
intricate, rather than being simply an adjustment to .bashrc (it  
implies configuration in two places rather than one, which is always  
bad).

   * On this platform, applications are installed in standalone  
directories per-application/version, rather than simply dropped into / 
usr/local.  Thus having a per-application install of hg is arguably  
DTRT on this platform (though this convention is weak for non-GUI  
programs).

Adding this one bit of configuration therefore has clear benefits on  
this platform.

Best wishes,

Norman


[1] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-11/msg00838.html

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Norman Gray  :  http://nxg.me.uk
Dept Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester

Message #11 received at 1429 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 1429 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#1429: vc-BACKEND-program options
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2021 17:20:11 +0200

Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org> writes:

> Clean up the vc backends at some point so they are consistent in terms
> of their usage of vc-BACKEND-program options.
>
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-11/msg00875.html

This was twelve years ago -- is there anything specific to be done here
now at this point?

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no

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