On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 2:01 AM, Eric Kow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 01:54:58 -0800, Trent W. Buck wrote: >> Since I find it hard to believe anyone but David would bother >> installing GHC *inside* wine, I'm inclined to believe that nobody else >> has actually run "make disttest" since Franchise was added -- or if >> they ran it, they didn't actually read the output. > > This was likely my case, as I use make disttest as part of the fire and > forget staging repo for pushing patches to stable. > > David: do you think we could move the franchise test from darcs into > franchise (i.e. maybe franchise could do a lazy get of darcs?) This > still gives you a chance to make sure the franchise stuff is working, > without annoying everybody else (I say this after fielding my third > complaint about make disttest)
I suspect the version of quick check that is recommended by the disttest is an unmaintained version. I recently reinstalled my ghc6.8.3 after trying out 6.10 (which rudely uninstalled 6.8.3). So I just now installed QC 2.1 from hackage using cabal-install. I don't see a 2.0 release on hackage in fact. This lead to compile errors about 'quickCheck'. I then remembered I had a local repo of 2.0 so I installed that, problem fixed. Next I investigated the repo mentioned in disttest. It says to get: http://darcs.haskell.org/QuickCheck Checking the cabal file in that repo it is indeed version 2.0. Checking on hackage for version 2.1: Home page http://www.haskell.org/QuickCheck/ Which gives a 404. But, the most recent copy on hackage is 2.1.something, and it gives this page: http://www.cs.chalmers.se/~koen/ Where I couldn't actually find a darcs repo for QC. This is a weird situation, not exactly our fault, but I think it's fair to say that we should try to be compatible with both 2.0 and 2.1. Many people will try to cabal-install, I reckon. I've emailed the author asking him if 2.0 was a valid release, since it's missing from hackage, and also asking where is the official repository these days. Thanks, Jason _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
