Re: version control and LIP

On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 08:54:09AM +0100, Ketil Malde wrote:

Isaac Jones writes:

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I hope you can solve this problem. Perhaps this is another reason I should move to darcs? How's darcs support in windows?

According to the following message on the darcs-users list, there is a build for it. I don't have Windows easily available, so I don't know how well it works.

I asked Vlad recently (off-list) about the state of the windows darcs build, since I don't have windows myself. There are apparently a few issues remaining. First off, email is a problem if you want to send patches via email. There is MAPI code, but apparently it doesn't work and noone knows how to fix it. There's also a bug that shows up in file handling, which is going to be a bit trickier to track down, especially since Vlad doesn't know haskell... but I've also heard from satisfied windows users, so this may be a rare bug or one that people can work around (and haven't bothered reporting). There isn't that much code in darcs that is platform-dependent. Most of the "hard" windows problems other than MAPI support (e.g. threading, which is done using either native windows calls or the pthreads library, I'm told both now work) have already been dealt with. So what remains is little things like the buggy renameFile on windows (which fails if the new filename already exists--this is just an example of something I've already had to deal with), which are harder to track down, but are at least "pure haskell" problems. -- David Roundy http://www.abridgegame.org/darcs