On Sun, 2 Nov 2008, David Roundy wrote:

> It may be true that there aren't many users who have installed zlib, but
> most likely *every* darcs developer who has compiled darcs on windows has
> installed the older version of zlib, and I don't see why we shouldn't spend
> a few lines of code to allow them to upgrade zlib at their leisure rather
> than forcing them (including myself) to upgrade immediately.

Well, I don't want to write the code, I don't want to maintain it, and I 
strongly believe it shouldn't be in darcs long-term, because it's just one 
more configuration that we ought to test if we support.

It might make a small amount of sense to have it in temporarily with an 
explicit decision that it'd be removed within a few months, but I don't 
think that the amount of hassle saved by a small number of developers 
being able to delay an upgrade that they should make at some point anyway 
can possibly outweigh the amount of hassle it would be to write and test 
the change.

Ganesh
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