On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 11:31 +0100, Max Bolingbroke wrote: > 2008/8/6 Duncan Coutts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 22:12 -0700, Don Stewart wrote: > >> marlowsd: > >> > Following lots of useful discussion and evaluation of the available DVCSs > >> > out there, the GHC team have made a decision: we're going to switch to > >> > git. > >> > >> Hooray, this will generate a lot of open source good will, and help make > >> GHC more accessible to the outside world. > > > > Heh, you still need darcs to build it, because all the libs are using > > darcs, and that's not going to change any time soon. > > One thing that might be a good idea is setting up Git mirrors of the > libraries etc that we cannot convert to Git since other people depend > on them. This would give us nice integration with Gits submodule > support, allowing us to check out a consistent snapshot of the entire > tree (including the libraries, Cabal etc) at any point in time > straightforwardly. Of course, as a bonus you wouldn't have to install > Darcs to clone.
If that means I can continue to use darcs for Cabal development then I'm happy. Duncan _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
