RE: darcs switchover

On 20 December 2005 16:19, Ross Paterson wrote:

On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 03:50:02PM +0000, John Goerzen wrote:

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On 2005-12-19, Malcolm Wallace wrote:

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Ross Paterson writes:

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But how about having a separate repository for each library package?

Seconded.

Simon, any thoughts?

Also, if the library packages are separate, the rest of the stuff in the libraries directory would be part of GHC's build system (nhc98 too at the moment, but it sounds like Malcolm will be changing that) so might as well be part of the ghc repository.

The time to mention this would have been a few weeks ago when I proposed the current scheme :-) I think it /would/ actually be nicer to split up the repository into separate packages. However, of the two ways to do this that John mentioned, only the second is practical IMO - that is, generate the repositories from CVS. So it's entirely up to John whether he wants to put the effort in or not. I don't think the current situation is bad - we had planned to split the packages into separate repositories eventually anyway, but we would lose the history at that point. Splitting them now means we keep the history, which is good. Cheers, Simon