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David

On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 1:02 PM, Eric Kow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> On Sun, Nov 02, 2008 at 09:04:11 -0500, 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.
>
> Would you feel more comfortable with this upgrade (from zlib 0.4 to 0.5)
> if we held a snap poll of developers, asking if anybody would actually
> object to upgrading their zlib?
>
> This is for the (likely rare) darcs developer who has installed the
> Haskell zlib package to make building darcs easier on Windows.  Note
> that upgrading your zlib should consist in:
>
> wget 
> http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/zlib/0.5.0.0/zlib-0.5.0.0.tar.gz
> tar xzvf zlib-0.5.0.0
> cd zlib-0.5.0.0
> runhaskell Setup configure
> runhaskell Setup build
> runhaskell Setup install
>
> (for cabal-install users; simply cabal update, then cabal upgrade zlib)
>
> Thanks!
>
> --
> Eric Kow <http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Eric.Kow>
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