Ketil Malde <ke...@malde.org> writes: > Peter Verswyvelen <bugf...@gmail.com> writes: > >> Forgetting to add a file can be a nasty one, since if you discover >> that too late, the original file at patch time might not exist >> anymore (how do you guys solve this? Just plain discipline I >> guess?). > > I've done this once, but with the cabal dependencies, not darcs. Thus > the uploaded sdist was missing one of the source files, and > consequently failed to build. > > I suppose the best way is to test this with a separate test repository > which you don't touch, except from pulling from your development repo > and checking that it builds.
For what its worth, the darcs "test" preference performs the tests in a completely fresh working tree that it creates ONLY using files that have been checked in. This helps avoid the problem of things only working "accidentally", because of uncommitted changes. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
