[Haskell-cafe] Re: darcs 2.4 beta 1 release

2010-01-07 Thread Trent W. Buck
Ivan Lazar Miljenovic ivan.miljeno...@gmail.com writes: I consider it show-stopping in the sense that I keep having people on #gentoo-haskell asking me why they can't compile darcs 2.3.1 because that error comes up, and I have to explain to either disable documentation or downgrade Cabal (if

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Darcs and NFS Resolution

2009-09-12 Thread Trent W. Buck
[Due to circumstances beyond my control, I cannot CC the OP. Sorry.] Jason Dagit da...@codersbase.com writes: [Darcs] assumes that when your OS is [POSIX], all your mounted volumes will natively support POSIX. Some CIFS servers (namely, Samba) *do* implement POSIX semantics. I take it to OP

[Haskell-cafe] Re: cheap in-repo local branches (just needs implementation)

2009-07-21 Thread Trent W. Buck
Eric Kow ko...@darcs.net writes: [...] a branch switching tool, utilizing darcs' existing repository data stores, could be built [...] today [...] as a second/third-party tool to darcs. I heartily approve of this approach. In-repo branches are occasionally useful to me, but the pollution of

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Darcs as undo/redo system?

2009-05-12 Thread Trent W. Buck
Wolfgang Jeltsch g9ks1...@acme.softbase.org writes: Am Freitag, 8. Mai 2009 18:43 schrieb Jason Dagit: If you wanted to work on this, I would encourage you to read more about patch theory[1,2,3,4] and also try out libdarcs[5]. Is libdarcs the same as the darcs library package on Hackage

Re: [Haskell-cafe] HPong-0.1.2 fails to compile in Debian ghc 6.10.1

2009-04-23 Thread Trent W. Buck
Ahn, Ki Yung kya...@gmail.com writes: I think this is because the filename of the OpenGL shared library is /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 rather than libGL.so. No. Do not manually create the symlink. It sounds like you don't have the -dev packages for OpenGL installed. I do already have the dev

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Reverting to any old version using Darcs

2009-04-04 Thread Trent W. Buck
Henning Thielemann lemm...@henning-thielemann.de writes: On Wed, 1 Apr 2009, Don Stewart wrote: bugfact: Rumor goes that this is very difficult to do with Darcs. Is this correct? darcs unpull Be careful - you cannot revert this! If you want to unpull patches, that were not distributed

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Reverting to any old version using Darcs

2009-04-02 Thread Trent W. Buck
Nicolas Pouillard nicolas.pouill...@gmail.com writes: Excerpts from Peter Verswyvelen's message of Wed Apr 01 23:39:15 +0200 2009: [...] biggest problems I usually see in teams - namely forgetting to add files, forgetting to check in dependencies and the inability the merge after renames or

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Reverting to any old version using Darcs

2009-04-02 Thread Trent W. Buck
Ketil Malde ke...@malde.org writes: Peter Verswyvelen bugf...@gmail.com writes: Forgetting to add a file can be a nasty one, since if you discover that too late, the original file at patch time might not exist anymore (how do you guys solve this? Just plain discipline I guess?). I've done

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Reverting to any old version using Darcs

2009-04-02 Thread Trent W. Buck
Simon Michael si...@joyful.com writes: I'm learning useful things in this thread. Ketil Malde wrote: I've done this once, but with the cabal dependencies, not darcs. Thus the uploaded sdist was missing one of the source files, and consequently failed to build. I have a pre-release make

[Haskell-cafe] Re: darcs fundraising drive - THANK-YOU!

2009-03-16 Thread Trent W. Buck
Eric Kow ko...@darcs.net writes: We hope to raise another $5000 to pay for a summer project ($4000) Nitpick: summer is hemispherist. -- Trent W. Buck, Pedant ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman

[Haskell-cafe] Re: a newbies confusion with repositories - darcs or git

2009-03-07 Thread Trent W. Buck
Eric Kow ko...@darcs.net writes: One of the darcs team members, Thorkil Naur, felt that in my enthusiasm I was not being sufficiently forthright about darcs's shortcomings. As for me, I tend to start any review with a list of all the problems I have with technology, on the basis that it's a

[Haskell-cafe] Re: a newbies confusion with repositories - darcs or git

2009-03-01 Thread Trent W. Buck
Max Battcher m...@worldmaker.net writes: +1. For the most part this was a great email. It probably belongs immortalized on the darcs blog and elsewhere. It could even go in the manual! I think the first two chapters of the manual should be 1. Why Darcs? 2. Quick Start ...and the

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Poll: Do you need to be able to build darcs from source on GHC 6.6?

2008-10-29 Thread Trent W. Buck
Duncan Coutts [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'd just like to point out (again ;-) ) than it's not that hard to support older platforms. The only constraint is that people not squeal at the sight of bundled code. The bundling can be done in such a way that it's not a maintenance burden, indeed it

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Poll: Do you need to be able to build darcs from source on GHC 6.6?

2008-10-29 Thread Trent W. Buck
David Roundy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: And as far as bundled versions, it's the desire to *remove* a bundled version that's apparently at issue. I'm not sure why this is considered desirable, but apparently some folks feel strongly about this. Could someone please summarize what code is

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Poll: Do you need to be able to build darcs from source on GHC 6.6?

2008-10-28 Thread Trent W. Buck
Jason Dagit [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Debian is nice in some ways and it's really great that stable lives up to its name, but I am sad that Debian has such old software for so long. Those two properties are strongly correlated. There is backports.org for cases where you want to cherry-pick a

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Poll: Do you need to be able to build darcs from source on GHC 6.6?

2008-10-28 Thread Trent W. Buck
Trent W. Buck [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 12:39:28PM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: Trent W. Buck writes: In an ideal world, we just make sure it builds with the latest tools, and let the users of stable distros worry about telling us if it breaks against

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

2008-08-03 Thread Trent W. Buck
Neil Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The darcs 2.0 announcement read like an obituary I don't know why, but a lot of people I spoke to seemed to have that impression, and I essentially had to wave changelogs under their face to convince them that darcs was still being worked on *at all*. I

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

2008-08-03 Thread Trent W. Buck
Ashley Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Aug 03, 2008, at 5:36 pm, Ketil Malde wrote: Seems I needed a newer darcs - the one shipped with Ubuntu is 1.0.9, which appears to be too old, and it works when I build a new 2.0.2 from the tarball. (Anybody with write access to the front page who