[Bash-completion-devel] Dropping _subversion

David Paleino d.paleino at gmail.com
Fri Jun 5 22:04:57 UTC 2009


On Sat, 6 Jun 2009 00:44:18 +0300, Ville Skyttä wrote:

> On Friday 05 June 2009, David Paleino wrote:
> > On Fri, 5 Jun 2009 18:47:18 +0300, Ville Skyttä wrote:
> > > What's the reason for not installing it anyway?  If there is a good one,
> > > I think it should at least be mentioned in the change log.
> >
> > Didn't we agree that upstream one was better than our? Wasn't that also the
> > reason to install it as "_subversion", i.e. to avoid filename collision
> > with upstream's?
> 
> I don't recall any of that, perhaps I wasn't yet following upstream bash-
> completion when that was discussed [0].  And I'm certain a lot of bash-
> completion users don't do that either, therefore this information would be 
> very good to have in CHANGES to avoid confusion (that's what I did when I 
> removed hg).

Added.

> > Anyway, we could also revert that commit, no hard feelings about it.
> 
> Like Guillaume, I'd prefer if it was kept around in the dist tarball for a 
> while even if not installed by default.  Add it to EXTRA_DIST in Makefile.am?

Done now :)

> [0] Actually I've several times had the intention to ask why it was named 
> _subversion with the underscore but never did; anyway now I know ;)

Eh, sorry, I don't know where that discussion was made, maybe also on IRC
only between me and Luk? Or maybe some bugreport? Can't really recall :(

David

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