1494971 - moz-phab should install private copy of arc

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Conduit :: moz-phab, enhancement)

Description

[Tom Tromey :tromey]

The moz-phab instructions say to install a custom version of
arcanist in order to work with git cinnabar:

https://moz-conduit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/phabricator-user.html#using-git-cinnabar

I was somewhat reluctant to do this, because I also need arcanist
to work for LLVM, and I was unsure if the modified version would
work in that case as well.

One way around this would be for moz-phab to simply install the
arcanist it needs in some private location -- say via a git submodule --
and then either set arc.arc_command to the appropriate path
in ~/.moz-phab-config; or just do away with it entirely.

Comment 1

[Mark Côté [:mcote]]

Note that we may indeed get rid of the need for Arcanist (at least locally), but that's likely a ways away.

Comment 2

[Mark Côté [:mcote]]

We're approaching the time to do bug 1471687 so I am going to officially WONTFIX this one.