[darcs-users] buildbot update

2008-05-05 Thread zooko
. :-) Regards, Zooko ___ darcs-users mailing list darcs-users@darcs.net http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users

Re: [darcs-users] Buildbot thorkil mac builds 27 and 28 seem unneccessary

2008-05-06 Thread zooko
: Reason: The web-page 'force build' button was pressed by 'zooko': see if it still fails http://allmydata.org/buildbot-darcs/builders/thorkil%20mac% 20Darwin-9.1.0%20powerpc/builds/26 Then by the time build #26 had finished, I had already pushed that button again: Reason: The web-page

[darcs-users] The buildbot is all green!

2008-05-07 Thread zooko
/uniqueoptions.sh Regards, Zooko ___ darcs-users mailing list darcs-users@darcs.net http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users

Re: [darcs-users] darcs patch: Use System.Directory.getTemporaryDirecto... (and 3 more)

2008-05-11 Thread zooko
Folks: How did this discussion end up? Are the Haskell temp file/temp directory abstractions good enough for darcs? Does darcs now create temp files in the system-appropriate temp directory where they belong? Regards, Zooko ___ darcs-users

[darcs-users] regression (?) on Windows -- patch don't inline darcs_version. (???)

2008-05-11 Thread zooko
Dear David Roundy: This build on Windows didn't pass all unit tests: http://allmydata.org/buildbot-darcs/builders/zooko%20windows% 20Windows-XP%20i386/builds/64 but after your recent patch don't inline darcs_version., it seems like it can't execute darcs at all: http://allmydata.org

[darcs-users] a new issue tracker that darcs developers could consider using (Re: bugs.darcs.net issues)

2008-05-12 Thread zooko
should be fast since trac +darcs caches results). If it doesn't, please let me know. Thanks to Lele Gaifax for the very nice trac+darcs plugin to integrate darcs into trac! (Trac was originally written to use Subversion.) Regards, Zooko ___ darcs

Re: [darcs-users] a new issue tracker that darcs developers could consider using (Re: bugs.darcs.net issues)

2008-05-12 Thread zooko
it. The view changes button that appears on some pages seems broken or silly. What's the view changes button? Oh, there it is. Zooko tries it. Yeah, that's useless. I've never noticed its existence before. Instead, click on the Revision Log link at the top of the page when you are viewing

Re: [darcs-users] darcs patch: Use System.Directory.getTemporaryDirecto... (and 3 more)

2008-05-12 Thread zooko
that directory. Regards, Zooko ___ darcs-users mailing list darcs-users@darcs.net http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users

[darcs-users] test :-) 2

2008-05-13 Thread zooko
test :-) 2 ___ darcs-users mailing list darcs-users@darcs.net http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users

Re: [darcs-users] HTTP support and Windows Build

2008-05-14 Thread zooko
corner), then search for my name in the Author column. There: http://allmydata.org/trac/darcs-2/changeset/5537/src/Darcs/Arguments.lhs Regards, Zooko ___ darcs-users mailing list darcs-users@darcs.net http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users

Re: [darcs-users] HTTP support and Windows Build

2008-05-14 Thread zooko
/waterfall If you click on stdio in the red test rectangle of the zooko windows column, you'll see: http://allmydata.org/buildbot-darcs/builders/zooko%20windows% 20Windows-XP%20i386/builds/67/steps/test/logs/stdio I have not yet investigated those test failures. Regards, Zooko

[darcs-users] down with autoconf

2008-05-14 Thread zooko
support going forwards, for example building darcs on Windows, then please allow me to vote in favor of us at least exploring the option of an alternative to autoconf. Regards, Zooko ___ darcs-users mailing list darcs-users@darcs.net http

[darcs-users] the problems with autoconf

2008-05-15 Thread zooko
time contributing to a cross-platform build automation tool. Regards, Zooko [1] http://docs.python.org/lib/module-distutils.html [2] http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/setuptools [3] http://allmydata.org/trac/darcs-2/browser/aclocal.m4 ___ darcs

Re: [darcs-users] the problems with autoconf

2008-05-15 Thread zooko
, but unfortunately I cannot test that patch today. Thanks, Zooko ___ darcs-users mailing list darcs-users@darcs.net http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users

Re: [darcs-users] the problems with autoconf

2008-05-15 Thread zooko
On May 15, 2008, at 9:54 AM, Karel Gardas wrote: zooko wrote: I couldn't figure out which instruction in darcs's configure.ac causes the resulting configure to do this test of a C compiler, before giving up in despair. AC_PROG_CC AC_PROG_CPP tests for C compiler first and then for C

Re: [darcs-users] down with autoconf

2008-05-15 Thread zooko
this is a general pattern in design of these tools -- to minimize the degree to which the process involves one tool emitting code that another tool processes. Regards, Zooko ___ darcs-users mailing list darcs-users@darcs.net http://lists.osuosl.org

Re: [darcs-users] the problems with autoconf

2008-05-16 Thread zooko
On May 16, 2008, at 6:01 AM, Simon Marlow wrote: zooko wrote: I really can't afford to spend another day on it, so for the moment my work building a statically-linked darcs executable for Windows which includes libcurl and SSL is stalled. Does it work to build it the way I described

[darcs-users] darcs goes faster if you break a repository up into successive chunks of patches?

2008-05-19 Thread zooko
repository ... Does anybody know why this is? It sounds like an opportunity for darcs optimization. Regards, Zooko ___ darcs-users mailing list darcs-users@darcs.net http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users

Re: [darcs-users] darcs goes faster if you break a repository up into successive chunks of patches?

2008-05-20 Thread zooko
the input incrementally and in one pass and with a very small fixed amount of state. So, there is nothing in the secure hash spec that prevents darcs from efficiently computing the secure hash of a bundle much bigger than your physical RAM, by processing it incrementally. Regards, Zooko

[darcs-users] buildbot update

2008-05-20 Thread zooko
that the buildmaster is really sending mail by redirecting that mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Regards, Zooko ___ darcs-users mailing list darcs-users@darcs.net http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users

[darcs-users] buildbot mail

2008-05-21 Thread zooko
is not. I guess this is because [EMAIL PROTECTED] is configured to reject e-mail from non-subscribers. Could someone please add [EMAIL PROTECTED] to the list of e-mail addresses who mails to darcs-devel are automatically approved? Regards, Zooko Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL

[darcs-users] encouraging words

2008-05-21 Thread zooko
real!. Also Peter has been using darcs-2 to manage binaries (Windows executables), and the other day he said something to the effect that he liked the way darcs behaved -- that it made sense. Regards, Zooko ___ darcs-users mailing list darcs-users

Re: [darcs-users] buildbot update

2008-05-21 Thread zooko
suggested, David, would be fixing issue #3 -- tell Buildbot not to timeout so earlier, or even not to timeout at all. Now that you mention it, that *is* a pretty good idea... I'll see about doing that... Regards, Zooko ___ darcs-users mailing list darcs

Re: [darcs-users] wishlist for darcs 2.1

2008-05-21 Thread zooko
dataset, and then fixing that problem also improves behavior for people who have smaller datasets.) Regards, Zooko ___ darcs-users mailing list darcs-users@darcs.net http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users

Re: [darcs-users] [darcs-devel] buildbot failure in darcs on karel opensolaris OpenSolaris-2008.05 nevada-86-rc3 i386

2008-05-21 Thread zooko
succeeded regardless of how the gettimeofday behaves. Regards, Zooko ___ darcs-users mailing list darcs-users@darcs.net http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users

Re: [darcs-users] [darcs-devel] buildbot failure in darcs on karel opensolaris OpenSolaris-2008.05 nevada-86-rc3 i386

2008-05-21 Thread zooko
() over and over and using up CPU? Or that it is blocked in a system call that has not returned? Thanks! Regards, Zooko ___ darcs-users mailing list darcs-users@darcs.net http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users

[darcs-users] Fwd: buildbot failure in darcs on thorkil mac Darwin-9.1.0 powerpc

2008-05-22 Thread zooko
By the way, could someone configure darcs-devel to have a Follow-up line point to darcs-users? Regards, Zooko Begin forwarded message: From: zooko [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: May 22, 2008 2:21:40 PM MDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: buildbot failure in darcs

Re: [darcs-users] buildbot failure in darcs on karel solaris Solaris-5.11 nevada-79a x86_64

2008-05-22 Thread zooko
the version of make that was installed on his system? Regards, Zooko ___ darcs-users mailing list darcs-users@darcs.net http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users

Re: [darcs-users] Fwd: buildbot failure in darcs on thorkil mac Darwin-9.1.0 powerpc

2008-05-23 Thread zooko
On May 23, 2008, at 5:09 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is a Follow-Up line different from the Reply-To, which already points to darcs-users? No, I was mistaken when I wrote a Follow-Up line. I don't know why my earlier reply to a darcs-devel message did not get sent to darcs- users. Must

Re: [darcs-users] wishlist for darcs 2.1 -- green buildbots

2008-05-27 Thread zooko
setting. This is known to cause mysterious problems on some platforms. Please try changing your buildbot.tac file, and replace usePTY = 1 with usePTY = False. Thanks! Regards, Zooko ___ darcs-users mailing list darcs-users@darcs.net http

Re: [darcs-users] Which google SoC 2007 projects were done?

2008-05-29 Thread zooko
. o 2008-06: still open Possibly related: Bram's Diff Algorithm: http://bramcohen.livejournal.com/37690.html Regards, Zooko ___ darcs-users mailing list darcs-users@darcs.net http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users

[darcs-users] darcs-2 executable for PowerPC Macintosh

2008-05-29 Thread zooko
or remove this dependency on this GMP.framework I would like to know, and then I can build a darcs binary which doesn't require such a step during installation. https://zooko.com/darcs-2-mac-powerpc.tar.bz2 Regards, Zooko ___ darcs-users mailing

[darcs-users] buildbot news

2008-06-01 Thread zooko
different bots of the same os-type?), so I started using the names of my computers -- renaming my bots from zooko allmydata windows to zooko allmydata virtual2, zooko allmydata dapper to zooko allmydata slave3, zooko nexenta to zooko nooxie, zooko hardy to zooko yukyuk, and then I named

Re: [darcs-users] buildbot news

2008-06-01 Thread zooko
P.S. More buildbots are always welcome! If you can contribute a computer to build and test darcs please let me know. Also, of course, if you look at the buildbot page and see a test failure and fix it, then you get many hero points and I thank you. --Z [1] http://buildbot.darcs.net

Re: [darcs-users] darcs patch: Note first batch of openssl license exceptions granted.

2008-06-06 Thread zooko
On Jun 5, 2008, at 8:24 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm... David isn't too happy with the Eclipse part. I personally don't care either way, so it may be up to Zooko to open this debate. I personally don't use Eclipse (I use Emacs), but I know that a lot of other people do, and I know

Re: [darcs-users] darcs patch: Note first batch of openssl license exceptions granted.

2008-06-06 Thread zooko
On Jun 5, 2008, at 8:24 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm... David isn't too happy with the Eclipse part. I personally don't care either way, so it may be up to Zooko to open this debate. Oh, and I encourage you to solicit from people, and for people to give you, permission for David

Re: [darcs-users] how to build a darcs executable that reports its version number correctly

2008-06-30 Thread zooko
On Jun 30, 2008, at 2:12 PM, zooko wrote: Here is one that I just built. It has the 2.0.2 tag, and it has one extra patch beyond that, a patch named fix makefile to remember to regenerate version information after running configure.. So, I would expect it to have a version number like

Re: [darcs-users] how to build a darcs executable that reports its version number correctly

2008-07-02 Thread zooko
will investigate next time I am rebuilding darcs. Regards, Zooko #/bin/sh darcs get --lazy --tag=2.0.2 http://darcs.net cd darcs.net autoconf NAME=darcs-2.0.2 STOWDIR=/usr/local/stow/ INSTDIR=$STOWDIR$NAME ./configure --prefix=$INSTDIR make make check sudo mkdir -p $INSTDIR sudo chown `whoami

[darcs-users] link to my darcs source code browser from the front page?

2008-07-29 Thread zooko
? Regards, Zooko ___ darcs-users mailing list darcs-users@darcs.net http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users

[darcs-users] performance (was GHC and Darcs)

2008-07-30 Thread zooko
. In response to Patrick Waugh's comments, I would *like* to think that Haskell programs can be optimized at least as well as C++ programs can be, but I guess this remains to be empirically determined. Regards, Zooko ___ darcs-users mailing list darcs

Re: [darcs-users] performance (was GHC and Darcs)

2008-07-30 Thread zooko
interesting insights, and I'll bet a simple strace -T -r would, too. I've posted my notes about strace results before to the darcs-users list, but I didn't get any response. Perhaps I'll do so again using darcs-2.0.2 and a ghc repository. Regards, Zooko

Re: [darcs-users] GHC and Darcs

2008-07-30 Thread zooko
interested in the technical question of why darcs-2-format repositories perform worse than darcs-1-format repositories on the ghc code base. Regards, Zooko ___ darcs-users mailing list darcs-users@darcs.net http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs

Re: [darcs-users] profiling darcs (issue973)

2008-08-04 Thread zooko
do, if you have that. Regards, Zooko ___ darcs-users mailing list darcs-users@darcs.net http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users

Re: [darcs-users] profiling darcs (issue973)

2008-08-04 Thread zooko
switching to hashed format? Or did they experience significantly worse slowdowns on their systems (Windows) and their workflows (perhaps lots of unrecorded changes?). Also, could anyone state why the GHC developers didn't switch to darcs-2-format? Thanks! Regards, Zooko

Re: [darcs-users] [Haskell-cafe] poll: how can we help you contribute to darcs?

2008-08-04 Thread zooko
://haskell.org/bz There might be some interesting advantages that a revision control tool could gain with the use of a good compression tool like that... Regards, Zooko ___ darcs-users mailing list darcs-users@darcs.net http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman

Re: [darcs-users] darcs-devel, what's up ?

2008-08-10 Thread zooko
of a builder unless they stay disconnected for a certain time, configurable in the buildmaster. On other buildmasters that I use we have set that to 1 hour, but if even that is still too noisy then we could set it to a higher value. Regards, Zooko

Re: [darcs-users] darcs patch: rename GNUmakefile to Makefile.

2008-08-10 Thread zooko
emacs's makefile-mode will parse the darcs makefile more correctly if it is named GNUmakefile. Here is the ticket on allmydata.org to discuss the Tahoe makefile, which is currently named Makefile: http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/ticket/499 Regards, Zooko

Re: [darcs-users] windows binaries [was: Future of Darcs: Thanks for the poll responses and increase in contributors]

2008-08-10 Thread zooko
my distaste for autoconf and work on automating the Windows build. But first I'm probably going to experiment with using Gwern's patches that build darcs with Cabal instead of autoconf. That just seems more... fun. Regards, Zooko ___ darcs-users

[darcs-users] darcs bugs on Windows (was: Future of Darcs: Thanks for the poll responses and increase in contributors)

2008-08-11 Thread zooko
above into that ticket. Also, he didn't succeed to push patches directly through ssh. Why not? Thanks again! Regards, Zooko ___ darcs-users mailing list darcs-users@darcs.net http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users

Re: [darcs-users] darcs patch: rename GNUmakefile to Makefile.

2008-08-11 Thread zooko
On Aug 11, 2008, at 2:26 AM, Trent W. Buck wrote: zooko [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Also, the new version of emacs has different parsing rules for makefiles depending on whether the file is named GNUmakefile or Makefile. Presumably emacs's makefile-mode will parse the darcs makefile more

[darcs-users] link to a darcs code browser from the front page of darcs.net?

2008-08-11 Thread zooko
://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2008-July/012587.html http://bugs.darcs.net/issue930 Regards, Zooko ___ darcs-users mailing list darcs-users@darcs.net http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users

[darcs-users] problems in test_network on some buildslaves

2008-08-12 Thread zooko
and much else. Regards, Zooko [1] http://buildbot.darcs.net/builders/zooko%20nooxie%20Solaris-5.11% 20nexenta-20070704%20x86_64/builds/34/steps/test_configure/logs/stdio [2] https://zooko.com/zooko.make_test_network.log.txt [3] http://tahoebs1.allmydata.com:8123/uri/URI:DIR2

Re: [darcs-users] problems in test_network on some buildslaves

2008-08-13 Thread zooko
Dear Karel: You are the owner of the two other builders which are hanging during the network test. What version of libcurl is darcs being built against on those builders? Regards, Zooko On Aug 12, 2008, at 16:20 PM, zooko wrote: Folks: I noticed that several buildslaves were hanging

Re: [darcs-users] Any darcs 2 incompatibilities when using the old fashioned repo format?

2008-08-14 Thread zooko
, Zooko ___ darcs-users mailing list darcs-users@darcs.net http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users

Re: [darcs-users] Any darcs 2 incompatibilities when using the old fashioned repo format?

2008-08-14 Thread zooko
On Aug 14, 2008, at 10:42 AM, zooko wrote: The answer is that if you are using darcs-1-executable then you can, of course, only push or pull patches with darcs-1-format repos. If you are using darcs-2-executable then you can push and pull patches to/from darcs-1-format repos to hashed

[darcs-users] darcs upgrade HOWTO (was: poll: how can we help you contribute to darcs?)

2008-08-21 Thread zooko
. Personally step 2 has satisfied all my needs so I use the step 2 strategy for all my publicly shared repositories, although I do tend to create new private repositories with darcs-2-format. If someone wants to adapt this message to the darcs wiki I would be grateful. Regards, Zooko

Re: [darcs-users] [darcs-devel] buildbot failure in darcs on reinier slackware Linux-2.6.21.5 Slackware-12.0 i686

2008-08-21 Thread zooko
On May 31, 2008, at 4:52 AM, David Roundy wrote: Zooko, perhaps we could set these up to not bother mentioning slave-lost sorts of failures? I'm sorry if I didn't reply to this earlier -- I just noticed it in my inbox and I'm not sure if I've already replied to it. I can configure

Re: [darcs-users] darcs upgrade HOWTO

2008-08-21 Thread zooko
casual users. Regards, Zooko ___ darcs-users mailing list darcs-users@darcs.net http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users

Re: [darcs-users] darcs upgrade HOWTO

2008-08-21 Thread zooko
and urgent priorities are currently used for. Regards, Zooko http://allmydata.org -- Tahoe, the Least-Authority Filesystem http://allmydata.com -- back up all your files for $5/month ___ darcs-users mailing list darcs-users@darcs.net http

Re: [darcs-users] [darcs-devel] buildbot failure in darcs on heffalump Linux-? Debian-lenny(ish) ?

2008-08-25 Thread zooko
about everything else... Regards, Zooko --- http://allmydata.org -- Tahoe, the Least-Authority Filesystem http://allmydata.com -- back up all your files for $5/month On Aug 24, 2008, at 19:47 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Buildbot has detected a new failure of heffalump Linux-? Debian- lenny

Re: [darcs-users] [darcs-devel] [issue992] short secure version identifiers

2008-08-28 Thread zooko
. Regards, Zooko --- http://allmydata.org -- Tahoe, the Least-Authority Filesystem http://allmydata.com -- back up all your files for $5/month ___ darcs-users mailing list darcs-users@darcs.net http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users

Re: [darcs-users] [issue1042] I wish darcs-2 would do automatic darcs-1-compatibility.

2008-08-29 Thread zooko
On Aug 29, 2008, at 1:22 AM, Eric Kow wrote: Zooko: is there anything we can do that might ease the upgrade path? I hope that we can get far enough just by encouraging people to use hashed repositories locally and gently encouraging server admins to upgrade their darcs binaries

[darcs-users] [issue1042] I wish darcs-2 would do automatic darcs-1-compatibility.

2008-08-30 Thread Zooko
Zooko [EMAIL PROTECTED] added the comment: So for the record, why is it that you won't make darcs maintain a darcs-1-format repository internally? Because it would complicate the darcs source? In this ticket kowey asked Jason for his opinion on that, but Jason didn't reply

[darcs-users] patch: quote paths in mv.pl

2008-08-31 Thread zooko
Sun Aug 31 12:06:49 MDT 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED] * tests: quote the repo variable in mv.pl so that the test will work when PWD has a space in it New patches: [tests: quote the repo variable in mv.pl so that the test will work when PWD has a space in it [EMAIL PROTECTED] hunk

[darcs-users] patch: tests: silence unnecessary warning output from running tests

2008-08-31 Thread zooko
Sun Aug 31 12:54:58 MDT 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED] * tests: silence unnecessary warning output from running tests New patches: [tests: silence unnecessary warning output from running tests [EMAIL PROTECTED] hunk ./GNUmakefile 364 # $6 - harness define harness @echo Running $4 tests on

Re: [darcs-users] [issue1042] I wish darcs-2 would do automatic darcs-1-compatibility.

2008-08-31 Thread zooko
that even if this could be implemented easily enough in Haskell and the two URLs could be unified into one, it would still cause a performance reduction, so that's another reason not to do it. Regards, Zooko --- http://allmydata.org -- Tahoe, the Least-Authority Filesystem http://allmydata.com

[darcs-users] patches to ignore some patches in changelog generation

2008-09-01 Thread zooko
which includes the name warning because it makes buildbot think that the build step is emitting a compiler warning [EMAIL PROTECTED] addfile ./changelog.in/entries/zooko hunk ./changelog.in/entries/zooko 1 +ignore: name add warning to configure about Haskell zlib speed + [ChangeLog entries

Re: [darcs-users] patch: add makefile target named disttest which does the test currently written in _darcs/prefs/prefs

2008-09-01 Thread zooko
On Sep 1, 2008, at 12:22 PM, David Roundy wrote: This looks good to me. Is there any reason we shouldn't darcs setpref test 'make disttest'? Not that I can think of. disttest: distclean just to keep things a bit more reproducible? That sounds like a good idea, too. Regards, Zooko

Re: [darcs-users] growing the darcs team

2008-09-01 Thread zooko
Eric, David, folks: The new development plan sounds good! Way to go! Regards, Zooko --- http://allmydata.org -- Tahoe, the Least-Authority Filesystem http://allmydata.com -- back up all your files for $5/month ___ darcs-users mailing list darcs

[darcs-users] patch: disttest is default test and depends on distclean (was: patch: add makefile target named disttest which does the test currently written in _darcs/prefs/prefs)

2008-09-01 Thread zooko
Yes, here you go: Mon Sep 1 10:43:42 MDT 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED] * add makefile target disttest which does the script currently stored in _darcs/prefs/prefs This way other things such as buildbot can easily run the same tests as _darcs/prefs/prefs does. It is named disttest because it

Re: [darcs-users] breaking hashed files into multiple directories

2008-09-01 Thread zooko
Ubuntu or 64-bit Mac OS X, so there may be some porting work to be done even to start this job, and certainly there would be a lot of porting and testing and smooth upgrade issues to work out before such a thing could be shipped in darcs itself. Regards, Zooko --- http://allmydata.org

Re: [darcs-users] darcswatch ideas (Was: growing the darcs team)

2008-09-02 Thread zooko
of a patch in the comments, and you can get, of course, the latest version of the patch itself. Here is a randomly selected example: http://divmod.org/trac/ticket/2641 Regards, Zooko [1] http://twistedmatrix.com/trac [2] http://divmod.org/trac

[darcs-users] learning from other projects's development processes (was: darcswatch ideas (was: growing the darcs team))

2008-09-03 Thread zooko
of the code that they touch is thoroughly tested, there is an automated test demonstrating the problem or need and demonstrating that the patch fixes the problem or satisfies the need, and the patch has been reviewed by a developer other than its author. Regards, Zooko

Re: [darcs-users] ghc support policy (Was: darcs patch: Add Repository IO monad, RIO. (and 1 more))

2008-09-05 Thread zooko
, so I am +1 on making life for darcs hackers easier and more fun by requiring newer GHCs. Regards, Zooko --- http://allmydata.org -- Tahoe, the Least-Authority Filesystem http://allmydata.com -- back up all your files for $5/month ___ darcs-users

[darcs-users] platform support policy and buildbot (was: ghc support policy)

2008-09-05 Thread zooko
On Sep 4, 2008, at 4:54 AM, David Roundy wrote: It's effectively impossible to support a platform that no one uses, and very hard to support a platform that no developers use. Perhaps it is time to develop a clear policy on this issue and stick to it. As Zooko has suggested, we could

[darcs-users] making the darcs unit tests run on cygwin's bash.exe

2008-09-08 Thread zooko
On Sep 8, 2008, at 6:49 AM, Eric Kow wrote: Hi Zooko, Any chance you would be able to modify the WinXP build slave to use MSYS for testing instead of Cygwin? No, sorry. That machine is serving several other purposes and the software installed on it can't be changed for this purpose

[darcs-users] making buildbot more reliable (was: growing the darcs team)

2008-09-08 Thread zooko
the buildbot software that the darcs buildbot uses so that it will hopefully begin its new life of squawking *only* when there is a real regression that developers care about. Regards, Zooko --- http://allmydata.org -- Tahoe, the Least-Authority Filesystem http://allmydata.com -- back up all

Re: [darcs-users] darcs patch: Do no word splitting after expansion in pwd-based shel...

2008-09-08 Thread zooko
-style newlines. I believe I configured this one in the latter mode when I installed it. However, since adding IFS= makes it stop doing that, and does no harm on other platforms, and I have a lot of other things I'm supposed to be working on this week, I stopped there. Regards, Zooko

Re: [darcs-users] darcs patch: Move network related options to network_... (and 2 more)

2008-09-09 Thread zooko
On Sep 9, 2008, at 15:48 PM, Eric Kow wrote: Speaking of which, we really should get zooko (or can you do this?) to switch the buildbots over to darcs-unstable. Otherwise they can't give you much help, as you won't know until after you've applied a bad patch... I've pushed some

[darcs-users] warning when building on windows

2008-09-17 Thread zooko
http://buildbot.darcs.net/builders/zooko%20allmydata%20virtual2% 20Windows-XP%20i386/builds/60/steps/compile/logs/warnings warning: implicit declaration of function `umask' This was also true before darcs-2.0.0, and I submitted a patch for darcs-2.0.0 which fixed this, so this appears

Re: [darcs-users] darcs patch: simplify issue965 test (which took quite... (and 5 more)

2008-09-17 Thread zooko
on putting these fixes into the 2.0.3 pre-release, on the grounds that these fixes will hopefully prevent serious failures for users. Regards, Zooko --- http://allmydata.org -- Tahoe, the Least-Authority Filesystem http://allmydata.com -- back up all your files for $5/month

[darcs-users] Windows buildbot stuck waiting for user input again

2008-09-17 Thread zooko
be relied upon to come around and manually kick the darcs buildslave very often, so to make it useful we need to change the unit tests so that they don't pop up these windows. Regards, Zooko --- http://allmydata.org -- Tahoe, the Least-Authority Filesystem http://allmydata.com -- back up all

Re: [darcs-users] Windows buildbot stuck waiting for user input again

2008-09-17 Thread zooko
By the way, this log gives a clue as to which test was popping up that user interaction window: http://buildbot.darcs.net/builders/zooko%20allmydata%20virtual2% 20Windows-XP%20i386/builds/60/steps/test/logs/stdio Done running tests on darcs-2 repositories... Running perl tests on old

Re: [darcs-users] Windows buildbot stuck waiting for user input again

2008-09-17 Thread zooko
. (Although I know how to kludge it a few ways in GNU make.) An alternative would be for the darcs buildmaster to tell the slave whether or not to run Perl tests. Then the darcs buildmaster could tell (for now at least) only the non- Windows slaves to do so. Regards, Zooko --- http

Re: [darcs-users] Windows buildbot stuck waiting for user input again

2008-09-17 Thread zooko
On Sep 17, 2008, at 12:27 PM, zooko wrote: Done running tests on darcs-2 repositories... Running perl tests on old-fashioned repositories... workingdir.ok whatsnew... Dubious, test returned 255 (wstat 65280, 0xff00) All 3 subtests

[darcs-users] There is a specific, limited, set of ways in which the presence of cygwin on the operating system can have any effect on darcs's functionality.

2008-09-17 Thread zooko
tell since buildbot helpfully prints out the entire contents of the environment at the top of every subprocess log, e.g.: http://buildbot.darcs.net/builders/zooko%20allmydata%20virtual2% 20Windows-XP%20i386/builds/61/steps/test/logs/stdio I'm guessing that this issue with the editor is a case

Re: [darcs-users] [darcs-devel] buildbot failure in darcs on karel openbsd OpenBSD-4.3 i386

2008-09-17 Thread zooko
hopefully in the future we'll receive no messages from the buildbot except for when slaves are gone for 72 consecutive hours. Regards, Zooko ___ darcs-users mailing list darcs-users@darcs.net http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users

[darcs-users] the latest test failures on Windows

2008-09-18 Thread zooko
It looks like the Windows tests are now running to completion. http://buildbot.darcs.net/builders/zooko%20allmydata%20virtual2% 20Windows-XP%20i386/builds/68/steps/test/logs/stdio There are a few interesting failures. The first one, Cannot write \:Is a directory at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8

Re: [darcs-users] the latest test failures on Windows

2008-09-22 Thread zooko
that variable. Another would be to install a Windows version of Perl, but I'm loathe to mess with such things. Another would be to rewrite that test into sh, which seems to be the trend. :-) Regards, Zooko --- http://allmydata.org -- Tahoe, the Least-Authority Filesystem http

Re: [darcs-users] [darcs-devel] buildbot failure in darcs on zooko allmydata slave3 Linux-2.6.15 Ubuntu-6.06.2 LTS i386

2008-09-23 Thread zooko
On Sep 22, 2008, at 19:04 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Buildbot has detected a new failure of zooko allmydata slave3 Linux-2.6.15 Ubuntu-6.06.2 LTS i386 on darcs. Full details are available at: http://allmydata.org:13010/builders/zooko%20allmydata%20slave3% 20Linux-2.6.15%20Ubuntu

Re: [darcs-users] [darcs-devel] buildbot failure in darcs on zooko allmydata slave3 Linux-2.6.15 Ubuntu-6.06.2 LTS i386

2008-09-24 Thread zooko
improvement in the future would of course be to automate the production of .deb files like these. Regards, Zooko --- http://allmydata.org -- Tahoe, the Least-Authority Filesystem http://allmydata.com -- back up all your files for $5/month ___ darcs-users

[darcs-users] buildbot, --with-typewitnesses, and ghc 6.6

2008-09-24 Thread zooko
master.cfg file is in http:// code.haskell.org/darcs/buildbot and if anyone who knows what they are doing adds a patch to change this --with-typewitnesses configuration, I will deploy it to the buildmaster. Regards, Zooko --- http://allmydata.org -- Tahoe, the Least-Authority Filesystem http

Re: [darcs-users] buildbot, --with-typewitnesses, and ghc 6.6

2008-09-26 Thread zooko
Zooko: when you next pull buildbot patches, please (a) copy localcfg.py.example to localcfg.py and (b) set both variables within it to False Done! I have taken some steps to lower the barrier to entry for people to work on the buildbot configuration. See below Cool. Yes, you have

[darcs-users] upgrade the SUSE buildbot to ghc 6.6?

2008-09-26 Thread zooko
Dear Thorkil: Is it still true that your suse buildbot is running ghc 6.4? ghc 6.4 can no longer compile darcs, so we should either upgrade ghc on that machine or remove that buildbot from the list. Regards, Zooko --- http://allmydata.org -- Tahoe, the Least-Authority Filesystem http

Re: [darcs-users] issue27.sh is still sporadically buggy

2008-09-27 Thread zooko
was, as well as all of the environment variables that were set when the command was issued: http://buildbot.darcs.net/builders/zooko%20nooxie%20Solaris-5.11% 20nexenta-20070704%20x86_64/builds/77/steps/test/logs/stdio That shows that the only command that was issued in that particular build step was sh

Re: [darcs-users] cia-darcs and posthooks

2008-09-27 Thread zooko
. It is a post-hook instead of a wrapper. Regards, Zooko --- http://allmydata.org -- Tahoe, the Least-Authority Filesystem http://allmydata.com -- back up all your files for $5/month ___ darcs-users mailing list darcs-users@darcs.net http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman

Re: [darcs-users] issue27.sh is still sporadically buggy

2008-09-29 Thread zooko
. I use Python-oriented test software in my other projects, and while it could be pressed into service for this purpose, I suspect that there may be Haskell-oriented or bash-oriented test software that would serve better. Regards, Zooko --- http://allmydata.org -- Tahoe, the Least-Authority

Re: [darcs-users] Darcs 2 Binary on Solaris/SPARC?

2008-09-30 Thread zooko
Solaris/SPARC machine. :-) Regards, Zooko --- http://allmydata.org -- Tahoe, the Least-Authority Filesystem http://allmydata.com -- back up all your files for $5/month ___ darcs-users mailing list darcs-users@darcs.net http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman

Re: [darcs-users] darcs patch: Add Patch-salt as ignored prefix

2008-10-08 Thread zooko
.) Regards, Zooko --- http://allmydata.org -- Tahoe, the Least-Authority Filesystem http://allmydata.com -- back up all your files for $5/month ___ darcs-users mailing list darcs-users@darcs.net http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users

Re: [darcs-users] darcs patch: Add Patch-salt as ignored prefix

2008-10-08 Thread zooko
On Oct 8, 2008, at 7:14 AM, Eric Kow wrote: On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 07:03:49 -0600, zooko wrote: There is a way to make this true: define an unambiguous encoding. For example: make it so that darcs always appends the following to the end of the patch comment: Ignore-this-count

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