Going though "darcs help environment", I read about DARCS_GET_FOO
and DARCS_APPLY_FOO, clearly documented as hacks.

This patch removes the feature of using these variables when cloning
from / applying to non-standard URL's.

Other VCS like mercurial and git only support http(s), ssh, and
ftp(s) url's just like Darcs does natively (Git also support
rsync:// natively).

1 patch for repository http://darcs.net:

patch 63f9b2117eba7c80f7be0efc9f377211887a10e1
Author: Guillaume Hoffmann <guillaumh@gmail.com>
Date:   Thu Apr 21 17:17:15 ART 2016
  * remove support for DARCS_GET_ and DARCS_APPLY_ hacks

Attachments

• patch-preview.txt
• remove-support-for-darcs_get_-and-darcs_apply_-hacks.dpatch
• unnamed

Relevant chat http://irclog.perlgeek.de/darcs/2016-04-21#i_12374921

There was not much left in UI.RemoteApply and this module
was only used by UI.Commands.Push since UI.Commands.Put
ceased to exist, so merging it seemed to make sense.

2 patches for repository http://darcs.net:

patch 63f9b2117eba7c80f7be0efc9f377211887a10e1
Author: Guillaume Hoffmann <guillaumh@gmail.com>
Date:   Thu Apr 21 17:17:15 ART 2016
  * remove support for DARCS_GET_ and DARCS_APPLY_ hacks

patch 508a8b6f027aca6b05740dcc7d4ab0a7516f6a41
Author: Guillaume Hoffmann <guillaumh@gmail.com>
Date:   Fri Apr 22 16:59:46 ART 2016
  * merge UI.RemoteApply into UI.Commands.Push

Attachments

• patch-preview.txt
• remove-support-for-darcs_get_-and-darcs_apply_-hacks.dpatch
• unnamed

Because of the coming 2.12 release, I'm going to bend the
one-week-self-accept rule into a
three-days-self-accept-moreover-Ganesh-did-not-say-yes-but-almost rule
(see IRC discussion for context). Hopefully having these patches in the
2.12 branch will give them more exposure and opportunity to get user
feedback early.

As mentioned in the IRC discussion above, we can reintroduce the feature
(or half of it) if there is a real need. (Which, IMO, and as far as a
simple internet search can tell, is quite unlikely.)

So, self-accept.