Deprecating fetch and hgk

Benoit Boissinot bboissin at gmail.com
Fri Aug 12 08:26:50 CDT 2011


On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 9:19 AM, Dirkjan Ochtman <dirkjan at ochtman.nl> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 05:32, Matt Mackall <mpm at selenic.com> wrote:
>> These extensions are unloved and largely unmaintained. So we should
>> probably mark them deprecated so people stop using them. How should we
>> do that?
>
> Seems like a good idea.

+1

> Maybe show a warning (much like the one you get when you have enabled
> an extension that cannot be find)? Might be sensible to only show it
> when the extension is "triggered", e.g. when the fetch command is
> called.

Not sure what it brings, I'd rather just have a placeholder extension
stating the extension does no longer exists (or was moved to
hgext/obsolete/).

regards,

Benoit


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