1.0 approaches

[Stephen Touset]

On Feb 8, 2008, at 5:13 PM, Martin Geisler wrote:

> Stephen Touset <stephen at touset.org> writes:
>>
>> This would cause even more confusion, given that no other URI on the
>> planet uses it. Again, the old way isn't a "convention". It's a
>> documented standard.
>
> And this standard conflicts with the standard use of SSH -- when  
> using a
> program like Mercurial that runs some data over a SSH connection, then
> it would be nice if the program followed the standard syntax for SSH
> paths (like rsync does, for example). I expected Hg to behave like  
> that
> too in the beginning.

The fact that scp does not conform to the URI standard is not, in my  
opinion, an argument to abandon it ourselves. Especially when it's  
been mentioned before that Mercurial is using a built-in Python URI  
parsing library, which is (understandingly) incapable of dealing with  
scp-style paths.

-- 
Stephen Touset
stephen at touset.org



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