Re: [Monotone-devel] Workspace commands and automate/stdio

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 05:14:12PM +0200, Thomas Keller wrote:
> Well, adding those commands to automate is fairly trivial, there are
> mostly two problems with it:
> 
> a) implementing the commands means code doubling, and that also means
> double maintenance

Only if you do it wrong.  I know I sound like a broken record about
this, but you *are* allowed to factor that code out into common
support code, plus interface-specific bits (argument parsing, output
formatting).  There's no law that says if a program can do two similar
things, it must have code duplication...

-- Nathaniel

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