Re: [darcs-users] wishlist for darcs 2.1

2008-05-31 Thread Peter Hercek
Peter Hercek wrote: > Eric Kow wrote: >> How about plugging some of it into the issue tracker? At the moment, >> it may be better to use the web the interface http://bugs.darcs.net >> (because we're getting this annoying duplicate-bug problem from mail). -- > Point 3. There is some opposition

Re: [darcs-users] wishlist for darcs 2.1

2008-05-29 Thread Eric Y. Kow
> BTW, as an incentive we have a standing offer to buy and ship a new copy of > Windows to anyone interested in using it for darcs development... :-) On a tangentially related note, it may be worthwhile to try and get darcs running under Wine. It may not give us the full Windows experience, but

Re: [darcs-users] wishlist for darcs 2.1 -- green buildbots

2008-05-29 Thread Simon Marlow
Karel Gardas wrote: > Simon, > > Simon Marlow wrote: >> zooko wrote: >> >>> Next, karel's solaris box fails to compile, with this error message: >>> >>> http://buildbot.darcs.net/builders/karel%20solaris%20Solaris-5.11% >>> 20nevada-79a%20x86_64/builds/43/steps/compile/logs/stdio >>> >>> [ghc] sr

Re: [darcs-users] wishlist for darcs 2.1

2008-05-29 Thread Simon Marlow
zooko wrote: > Eric Kow: > > I totally agree with your list -- performance issues and Windows > polish. One particular thing that I'm interested in is scaling darcs > up to bigger projects. We have the perfect customer right now -- the > GHC team. They have strong demands, cooperate well

Re: [darcs-users] wishlist for darcs 2.1 -- green buildbots

2008-05-29 Thread Karel Gardas
Simon, Simon Marlow wrote: > zooko wrote: > >> Next, karel's solaris box fails to compile, with this error message: >> >> http://buildbot.darcs.net/builders/karel%20solaris%20Solaris-5.11% >> 20nevada-79a%20x86_64/builds/43/steps/compile/logs/stdio >> >> [ghc] src/OldFastPackedString.o >> >> sr

Re: [darcs-users] wishlist for darcs 2.1 -- green buildbots

2008-05-29 Thread Simon Marlow
zooko wrote: > Next, karel's solaris box fails to compile, with this error message: > > http://buildbot.darcs.net/builders/karel%20solaris%20Solaris-5.11% > 20nevada-79a%20x86_64/builds/43/steps/compile/logs/stdio > > [ghc] src/OldFastPackedString.o > > src/OldFastPackedString.hs:98:0: >

Re: [darcs-users] wishlist for darcs 2.1 -- green buildbots

2008-05-27 Thread zooko
Jules: I've added to the buildmaster script three utility classes to display the versions of buildbot, darcs and darcs --exact-version for each builder. This shows that your buildbot is indeed using the darcs-2 that you installed. I also notice that you have the default "usePty=True" set

Re: [darcs-users] wishlist for darcs 2.1

2008-05-23 Thread Peter Hercek
Eric Kow wrote: > How about plugging some of it into the issue tracker? At the moment, > it may be better to use the web the interface http://bugs.darcs.net > (because we're getting this annoying duplicate-bug problem from mail). David is against 1 so it does not make sense to add it there (it is

Re: [darcs-users] wishlist for darcs 2.1

2008-05-23 Thread Isaac Dupree
Eric Kow wrote: > Note that the choice of 'mv' vs 'remove' was quite deliberate (mv > actually moves things, remove does not). But I think this distinction > is probably lost on most users, and that renaming mv to move (more > precisely, hiding 'mv' and unhiding 'move') should be fine. On the > o

Re: [darcs-users] wishlist for darcs 2.1

2008-05-23 Thread Kari Hoijarvi
Peter Hercek wrote: > 3) Make darcs really patch based: > > a) Amend-record should be safe. This probably means >that a hierarchy should be added to patches. >A patch (as seen in darcs log and other UI commands) >should be composed of a sequence of patches so >am

Re: [darcs-users] wishlist for darcs 2.1

2008-05-23 Thread daveroundy
On 5/22/08, Peter Hercek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Eric Kow wrote: >> [cut] >> Those are my personal desires anyway. >> What do you think? Sound like a plan? > > Ok, those are short term things and I like them and they > should be considered high priority. > I (as a user) could add few more l

Re: [darcs-users] wishlist for darcs 2.1

2008-05-23 Thread Eric Kow
> I (as a user) could add few more low priority wishes which > I did not notice in issue tracker. Not sure anybody else > beside me would be interested. The last one is probably > for something like darcs 3.0 :-D Nice wishlist, Peter. How about plugging some of it into the issue tracker? At t

Re: [darcs-users] wishlist for darcs 2.1

2008-05-22 Thread Don Stewart
phercek: > Eric Kow wrote: > > [cut] > > Those are my personal desires anyway. > > What do you think? Sound like a plan? > > Ok, those are short term things and I like them and they > should be considered high priority. On other UI notes, I'd like to see verbose output going to a pager by defa

Re: [darcs-users] wishlist for darcs 2.1

2008-05-22 Thread Peter Hercek
Eric Kow wrote: > [cut] > Those are my personal desires anyway. > What do you think? Sound like a plan? Ok, those are short term things and I like them and they should be considered high priority. I (as a user) could add few more low priority wishes which I did not notice in issue tracker. No

Re: [darcs-users] wishlist for darcs 2.1

2008-05-22 Thread Eric Kow
> A 2.0.1 release should really consist of me stopping allowing > non-bugfixes for a while, then tagging, updating configure.ac, and > making tarballs. So how about no new features or performance patches > from now until 2.0.1 is released? (I feel bad that I let in the Lcs > rewrite, which include

Re: [darcs-users] wishlist for darcs 2.1

2008-05-22 Thread David Roundy
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 5:21 AM, Eric Kow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It may be time to start thinking about the next version of darcs (say, > for early 2009). ... > (1) critical/urgent bugs - darcs 2.0.0 seems much more robust than > darcs 1, but we still do have at least one case where it blows

Re: [darcs-users] wishlist for darcs 2.1

2008-05-22 Thread Eric Kow
> Speaking of which, I remember seeing some profiler output for darcs. > Can the person who did that send a darcs patch which enables > profiling? See the --enable-hpc stuff for inspiration. [of course, if > anybody else wants to take this on...] Heh... already done. Thanks! [I was looking in th

Re: [darcs-users] wishlist for darcs 2.1

2008-05-22 Thread Eric Kow
> Also, from the engineering point of view, I would be quite interested to > see darcs using SMP -- perhaps as some research prototype as a proof of > concept motivating future hacking. It's been quite interesting to read > the post here: http://cgi.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/blog/2007/11 Sure... altho

Re: [darcs-users] wishlist for darcs 2.1

2008-05-21 Thread Karel Gardas
Hello, zooko wrote: > I totally agree with your list -- performance issues and Windows > polish. One particular thing that I'm interested in is scaling darcs > up to bigger projects. We have the perfect customer right now -- the > GHC team. They have strong demands, cooperate well with u

Re: [darcs-users] wishlist for darcs 2.1

2008-05-21 Thread zooko
Eric Kow: Sounds good! It kind of seems like since the darcs-2.0.0 release we have been in "stable development" mode. That's fine (and we have definitely done a lot of good porting and bugfixing and testing which ought to go into a darcs-2.0.1 release soon), but I agree that we also need s

[darcs-users] wishlist for darcs 2.1

2008-05-21 Thread Eric Kow
Hi everyone, It may be time to start thinking about the next version of darcs (say, for early 2009). I thought I might put down my personal wishlist and see what you think. My goal here is to have a very small number of well-defined objectives. Please keep in mind that, as usual, I am speaking a