On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 02:45:25PM +0200, Clive Crous wrote: > The repository is at: > http://www.darkarts.co.za/repository/vultures > > The patch file is at: > http://www.darkarts.co.za/large_vultures_patch > (29764833 bytes)
I can't say how this happened, but the large_vultures_patch appears to be corrupt. In particular $ grep adddir large_vultures_patch adddir ./vultures/win/jtp/gamedata/sound/Karen/Combat adddir ./vultures/win/jtp/gamedata/sound/Karen/Rooms adddir ./vultures/win/jtp/gamedata/sound/Karen/Combat/temp but the directory ./vultures/win/jtp/gamedata/sound/Karen does not exist. The latest darcs gives a better error message on this, which made this pretty easy to track down. Somehow the directory ./vultures/win/jtp/gamedata/sound/Karen/Monsters/ also doesn't seem to have been created. Something's very weird with this developer's repository. :( The repository that produced large_vultures_patch must have serious corruption. And alas, even the most recent darcs is still ridiculously slow on this 30M patch. It took my computer 1min40sec just to see that the patch bundle hash is wrong (when I messed it up myself). :( I'll keep a copy of this repo and patch for timings, if that's all right with you? It appears to be under an open source license, and a "real" repository that uses large binary patches will be a good motivator for improving darcs' performance in this scenario (which before seeing vultures, I though only happened in projects using proprietary (binary) libraries... and I feel less altruistic in that case than towards someone producing an open-source game). -- David Roundy http://www.darcs.net _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.abridgegame.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
