Just to let you and others know, the problem with the network has now
been identified and, we think, fixed.

On Wed, 2008-09-03 at 23:28 +0200, Matthias Kilian wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 11:22:33PM -0700, Don Stewart wrote:
> > > - darcs.haskell.org is very slow, and sometimes not reachable at all, at
> > >   least whenever I tried to darcs get, darcs pull or just wget
> > >   something from it ;-)
> > >   I don't know wether it has bad connectivity at all, or wether
> > >   some bandwith-limiting is in action.
> > 
> > We just upgraded the bandwidth,
> 
> Yeah, to 1 *packet* per hour.
> 
> > but it still keeps getting saturated
> > with hackage downloads. I'll raise the issue with the administrators.
> 
> Move this shit to another server, ASAP. Damit. I wasted ONE COMPLETE
> WEEK (well, only my spare time after my day job) trying to get
> current sources on my development machine and trying to write some
> mirroring script (which doesn't work either, since darcs.haskell.org
> just sucks if it comes to connectivity). I only wanted to build a
> working ghc-HEAD to get this .cabal -> makefile snippet thing done,
> but how could I do without a working (and current) ghc?
> 
> Sorry, but if the Haskell community backs on a main darcs repository
> that JUST DOES NOT WORK, and if the most important compiler DOES
> NOT CARE ABOUT PORTABILITY (I mean the HC bootstrapping, which has
> been pushed from milestone to milestone), then I'm not any longer
> interested at all.
> 
>               -- Kili
> 

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