On 6/14/07, David Roundy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Why replace three more powerful options with a single less powerful option that also complicates the build process (not the configure script, but the sequence that user must go through to compile darcs)? I do hope that at a minimum the new patch allows us to compile without HTTP support?
I think the build process is less complex with this library. In order to create the patch, I needed to build darcs on Windows. It was definitely a non-trivial process (see these instructions on the wiki: http://darcs.net/DarcsWiki/BuildingUnderWindows). Libcurl was a small but fragile portion of it. I needed to download a library, ensure it was built correctly itself, and then, because my MinGW installation had some strange paths, I needed to be sure to pass the right compiler flags to configure (CPPFLAGS & LDFLAGS). At least with the HTTP library, the download and install is pretty straightforward due to Cabal packagin, and no extra flags are required. FTP support is a loss, and I would be glad to add support for those URLs if this patch is accepted. Updating the configure script to allow compiles without HTTP support would be pretty straightforward, too. Justin _______________________________________________ darcs-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-devel
