On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 14:03 +0100, Ian Lynagh wrote:
On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 12:04:15PM +1000, Manuel M T Chakravarty wrote:
I seriously hope the plan is to move all *core* libraries (including GHC's cabal repo) etc over to git, too. In other word, everything that you need to build the development version of GHC should come via git. Having a mix of VCSs would be the worst option of all.
No, the plan is to move only the GHC and testsuite repos to git, as the others are also used by hugs, nhc98, etc.
It would be possible to move GHC's Cabal repo over too, as that is private to GHC, but given the other libraries will be using darcs anyway I think it is simpler to keep all darcs repos using the same VCS.
If there's some way of having automated git mirrors of the upstream darcs repos then that's might be convenient for people building ghc. Asking the maintainers of all other libs to switch is a bit much though. Duncan