"Simon Marlow"
The aim is to eventually switch over to using darcs for our revision control. The point of this message is to find out what constraints people have that will affect when we can throw the switch.
One thing it occurs to me to ask is what will be happening to CVS commit messages, once the switchover to darcs happens? I have investigated this briefly, and it seems that darcs does not yet directly support mailing out commit messages from a repository. There is a wrapper script at darcs get http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/code/darcs-mail but this requires administration privileges on the hosting machine, since you need to rename the darcs binary proper, then install the wrapper in its place. Also, it is unclear to me whether this wrapper works equally well in all situations, e.g. with 'darcs apply' on the hosting machine, 'darcs push' from a separate repository on the same host, or 'darcs push' from a remote machine with ssh. Anyone sufficiently familiar with this to shed any light? Regards, Malcolm