On 2008 Jul 15, at 20:45, Austin Seipp wrote:
For the purpose of experimenting with NDP I went through the process of getting the GHC head from darcs.haskell.org. As specified in the developer wiki[1], using darcs get is basically not possible because there're so many patches. So I downloaded
http://darcs.haskell.org/ghc-HEAD-2008-06-06-ghc-corelibs-testsuite.tar.bz2
This alone took over *7 hours* using wget because it could never get a connection faster than 5kb/s.
FWIW I did manage to get it using darcs (!) having not checked the wiki to see that it was supposedly impossible these days. (Well, I did get --partial. --all is a definite mistake.)
I let darcs sit for over another hour and a half trying to pull patches from darcs.haskell.org for the libraries and the testsuite.
It never got past packages/base. In fact, it never even got to *getting* the patches from the base repository, it sat there, stuck at the 'identifying repository' stage (darcs 2.0.2) for over an hour, making my processor go round and round at 99% CPU usage the entire way, never accomplishing anything. What makes it even stranger is that it got the latest patches for the testsuite and the array package pretty quick. It just got permanently stuck on base for some reason and never went further.
Mine stopped at array. That said, it does seem really slow; given your comment about downloading, this sounds like a problem with darcs.haskell.org in general. But it might be worth grabbing darcs1 for Leopard and trying again. -- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH