On Aug 29, 2008, at 1:22 AM, Eric Kow wrote: > Zooko: is there anything we can do that might ease the upgrade > path? I hope > that we can get far enough just by encouraging people to use hashed > repositories > locally and gently encouraging server admins to upgrade their darcs > binaries.
Fresher darcs-2 binaries for more platforms [1]. The traditional way to do this is to ask volunteers to do it, but I think it would be better to ask the volunteers to contribute a buildslave and to help write the buildslave script for building and uploading binaries. Other than that -- and the topic of this ticket -- I can't think of anything. Darcs-2 is already propagating through the Free Software ecosystem, e.g. Debian Lenny [2]. The general strategy that David Roundy launched with darcs-2 and the three repository formats is a good strategy for graceful upgrade. (Although it continues to be a problem that people confuse darcs-1-executables with darcs-1- repository-format and darcs-2-executables with darcs-2-repository- format, but it's too late to do anything about that now. Or is it? Hm...) It would help to fix any regressions and release darcs-2.0.3 ASAP, and for the 2.0.3 release announcement to be written and sent by someone other than David Roundy. I don't mean any slight to David Roundy, for whom I have great respect and appreciation, but he has demonstated, and stated, that he is not the right person for that job. That's all I can think of. Regards, Zooko [1] http://wiki.darcs.net/DarcsWiki/CategoryBinaries [2] http://packages.debian.org/lenny/darcs --- http://allmydata.org -- Tahoe, the Least-Authority Filesystem http://allmydata.com -- back up all your files for $5/month _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
