[VCS] Merging IAtomic* into IBasic*

[Matthew Woehlke]

Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> On 15.05.07 13:24:49, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
>> Andreas Pakulat wrote:
>>> On 15.05.07 11:25:11, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
>>>> Ok, let's see... a FileNumber revision still needs a path, but I 
>>>> don't think there is a way to construct such a critter (nor do I 
>>>> particularly feel that there should be), especially since not all VCS's 
>>>> will support FileNumber revisions (e.g. svn won't). The other 
>>>> interesting effect is that if change() takes a repository path, I guess 
>>>> CVS can actually support it, in which case it can move to IBrowsableVC 
>>>> after all. Any objections?
>>> IBrowsable? I thought more of IBasic, I mean its pretty basic stuff
>>> IMHO and its not really something you use when browsing a VCS in a
>>> repo-browser, right?
>> Well, it is if you use p4v :-). Actually change() to me seems more like 
>> an 'exploring the repo' option than something you would want to use on a 
>> project*, or to argue the other way I feel like it should be in the same 
>> interface as the repo-path flavor of log(). (At one point I thought we 
>> were trying to keep things that took repo paths out of IBasicVC?)
> 
> Ok, you convinced me. Please do that

Done.

> and when you're done would you mind
> checking wether we forgot to clear anything

Nope, I don't mind :-). I won't get to it instantly though; meanwhile I 
have no outstanding changes so ping me if there's anything else you're 
aware of.

> and if not send a new mail to
> the list asking everybody to look into the ifaces and ask any question.
> So we can hopefully tell our VCS people to port to the new interfaces
> sometime after the weekend (depending on how much feedback we get).

Will do, and thanks!

-- 
Matthew
People say I'm going insane. I say, "what do you mean, 'going'?".