On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 10:11:34PM -0700, zooko wrote:
>> I would hope that most users are already running Darcs 2.0.0 or
>> higher.
>
> You underestimate the upgrade cycle for revision control tools for
> certain sorts of people. You're going to be hearing about these
> sorts of issues for years. :-)
\begin{rant}
I guess I do. I see a big difference between mission-critical server
packages (like the MTA or the HTTPd), and developer tools that are
running on some schmuck's laptop or workstation.
If I install a backported stable release of Emacs or Darcs on my
laptop, the worst case is that I've wasted an hour of one user's (my)
time to upgrade and then downgrade it again. Big deal.
I find it hard to picture a modern use case where you have a hundred
people all developing on the same machine via ttys, such that a
botched upgrade of a developer tool would actually inconvenience a
significant number of people.
I guess I'm also assuming that you're actually doing decentralized
development, such that people need to "darcs get" from allmydata.org,
but only zooko and a handful of others ever actually push to (i.e. run
darcs on) that server.
Hmm, I suppose if you're in a big corporation you might be stuck with
an SOE, so that even though you're running darcs on a single-user
laptop, you're too locked down to even be able to install the current
stable release in ~/.bin.
\end{rant}
> Ha! The current Ubuntu Long-Term-Support version is Ubuntu Hardy
> (8.04), which has darcs-1.0.9.
Darcs is not subject to Ubuntu's LTS, so there's no point in using the
LTS version of Darcs. Unfortunately it looks like there's no darcs
2.x in hardy-backports, so it's tedious to cherry-pick it.
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