27 Dec
2005
27 Dec
'05
9:35 p.m.
On 2005-12-23, Malcolm Wallace
Is there more to this job than just running either cvs2darcs or tailor, then waiting a few days (:-) for it to finish?
There is quite some time involved in bootstrapping things, especially when branches are concerned. About 30-60 minutes without branches, or 2 hours with branches, per new (darcs) repo. As a fan of laziness, I prefer not to do this any more than absolutely necessary. ;-) There is also an incremental cost; for instance, when (if?) the libraries branch for GHC 6.6, there will have to be new branches of each individual component now. (Though once it is in darcs, this is a 15-second thing) -- John