Re: [Hackage] #604: a feature to explicitly allow multiple versions of a single dependency

2009-11-11 Thread Thomas DuBuisson
If you didn't have them both as executables at the same time but built each separately based on a flag then this should work. On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 11:40 AM, Hackage wrote: > #604: a feature to explicitly allow multiple versions of a single dependency > +

Re: nice new hackage urls

2009-07-07 Thread Thomas DuBuisson
> I now realise we need a bit more :-) > > So the issue is that we'd like to be able to specify a server by a > single URL and be able to find everything else relative to that. Ideally > we would do that by some discovery mechanism rather than hard coding > relative URLs into the clients, but in th

Re: Participation in Cabal / Hackage development

2009-01-18 Thread Thomas DuBuisson
On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 6:40 PM, Duncan Coutts wrote: > All, > > I just mentioned ideas for Cabal 2 but I should also like to talk about > how we can go about increasing participation in the development effort. > We currently have nearly 200 open tickets which include many important > bugs and no

Re: [Hackage] #447: do parallel builds

2009-01-17 Thread Thomas DuBuisson
Among other potential issues, I think he's saying that the TCP window size closes for any one connection (because the RTT is high, ACKs don't come often enough). Therefore, multiple downloads (multiple TCP connections) can provide a boost even when going to the same server. I've heard of this bef

#176 Cabal verbosity message patch

2008-01-13 Thread Thomas DuBuisson
See attached patch fixing Ticket 176 - just a simple additional string on printout w/ magic number. Figured making Verbosity derive Enum / making the functions talk in Enum/succ terms was excessive. TomMD New patches: [Inform users of max verbosity (fixes ticket 176) [EMAIL PROTECTED] { hunk .