kirby81:
> 2008/10/31 Eric Kow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 14:33:49 +0100, Salvatore Insalaco wrote:
> >> Is it possible to download the new "cabalized" version of darcs, made
> >> during the sprint?
> >> I would like to test it on Windows (or help testing it).
> >
> > darcs get http://code.haskell.org/darcs/sprint
> 
> I tried to build it today.
> With flags -terminfo +http -curl -libwww, it works "out of the box" on 
> windows.
> With flags -terminfo -http +curl -libwww and with -optl-lcurldll, and
> the binary distribution of windows curl installed, it works with curl
> too.
> 
> Franchise can't actually build darcs on windows with curl, as there's
> no curl-config in Windows binary curl distribution (curl-config
> requires sh, as far as I know).
> 
> Terminfo can't work on windows, so it should be disabled on this
> platform by default. -terminfo +http -curl -libwww could be a good
> default under windows (it's the only combination that works "out of
> the box").
> 
> Static curl compilation is not worth the trouble, in my opinion
> (specially with SSL): let's just distribute libcurl.dll and
> libssl32.dll and tell the user to put them in the same directory
> darcs.exe lives. If we don't want to distribute them, there's a nice
> zip on the curl website with those files.
> 
> Unfortunately there's something wrong with the sprint branch: it
> cannot fetch a patch from the unstable repository in Windows, with
> both HTTP and curl:
> 
> darcs failed:  Couldn't fetch
> `0000001865-fe3d3c7e6a9130fbf39c933683418d7e6887738b978db618bd41e219daceebb'
> 
> It works with the bytestring darcs repository.
> 
> This is a "report from the field" mail: I will soon follow-up with my
> thoughts about windows support and the build issue on that platform.

Great. I'm glad things are working.
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