Re: converting the sockets and instrument-control packages to mercurial

[Carnë Draug]

On 24 July 2013 19:32, Paul Dreik <address@hidden> wrote:
> sorry for being late to the discussion but I cancelled the subscription
> after the mailing list merge (too much mail...).

I think I'm receiving less mail after the merge into the maintainers
list, since we don't get the help requests there anymore.

> I think the two packages definitely should stay separate packages. That
> is what the dependency line in the package description is for, right? I
> think the unix idea of keeping tools small really applies to the socket
> package - let's keep it providing sockets and nothing else.
>
> Joining the two packages in the same repository is another question. I
> do not see the advantage at all in joining from the sockets perspective.
> The connection is one-way, sockets is a standalone package. Therefore, I
> propose not to join the two packages in the same repository.

Ok. I thought that the sockets package had another purpose, but after
talking about it on IRC, I understood its point is to provide a
low-level interface to sockets. It is not meant to be matlab
compatible ever which does not provide such thing.

I have created two separate mercurial repos for the packages, and
removed them from SVN.

Carnë