On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 11:34:35PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Tue Apr 29 23:19:21 EDT 2008  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>   * darcs prefs: remove type witness stuff, breaks compiles
>   It's worth noting that the test as it stood ran on every patch record, and 
> allows patches to be recorded only if one can compile with type witnesses.
>   It's also worth noting that 6.8.x can't compile everything with type 
> witnesses, and lispy says 6.6.1 can't either. So, in general, turning on type 
> witnesses in this particular place strikes me as a very very bad thing to do.
>   If Dr. Roundy wants to automatically test compilation with type witnesses, 
> the thing to do is to have the configure script turn it on if an example 
> compiles, say. Forcing it on just leads to breakage and considerable 
> annoyance for people who have to rm _darcs/prefs/prefs just to record some 
> patches.

No, the default should be to run all tests.  If you don't have ghc 6.6 on
your machine, you can trivially configure your repository to run a subset
of the full test suite.  This is a per-repository configurable option,
after all.
-- 
David Roundy
Department of Physics
Oregon State University
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