[Cuis] Warnings on image save (was Re: Why not just kill changesets?)

[H. Hirzel]

For me this makes sense

--Hannes

On 1/3/13, Juan Vuletich <juan at jvuletich.org> wrote:
> Hi Casey,
>
> (inline and abridged on subject)
>
> Casey Ransberger wrote:
>> I think the problem with the warnings had to do with my not
>> understanding some design constraints clearly, and this clarifies;
>> also, sorry if I offended, that was definitely not my intent.
>> Sometimes I come off as ranty when I don't mean to: mea culpa.
>
> Hey, don't worry. Maybe I overreacted a bit, or I made it look like that.
>
>> ...
>>
>>
>>         - No more annoying dialogs about unsaved changes in core when
>>         there aren't actually any. Everything is a package, so there
>>         isn't a distinction. We don't need a special method to
>>         determine what's part of core and what isn't WRT the warnings
>>         about unsaved changed. Elegance, symmetry, less blivet to
>>         worry about.
>>
>>
>>     This is unfair. I answered (I believe twice) about your concerns
>>     with those warnings, but didn't get a response from you! Please,
>>     let's discuss those warnings in a separate thread. If we have some
>>     use case(s) and some discussion, I believe we'll clarify any
>>     doubts and come up with something that works well for everybody.
>>
>>
>> I thought I replied to that, but it's in my drafts. Oops. Also, I'm
>> sorry about the way I phrased that. The short version of what I said
>> was "I get it now, and yes, the change you suggested does make sense."
>> If I'd sent that, I think this statement might have made a bit more
>> sense. I brought it up here because what I was suggesting seemed to
>> obviate that work.
>>
>
> This is what I'm coding right now:
>
> On quit without save:
> - Warn about unsaved packages (if you don't save them, you might need to
> go to the .changes file to recover your work)
> - Warn about unsaved changes to core (if you don't save them, you might
> need to go to the .changes file to recover your work)
>
> On quit and save:
> - Don't warn about unsaved packages. You can save them anytime.
> - Do warn about unsaved changes to core (the change set will be removed,
> so you'll need to gather them if you want to publish them or update
> other images).
>
> Does this make sense?
>
> Cheers,
> Juan Vuletich
>
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