On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 05:24:51PM +0200, Sven Panne wrote:
(Does anybody remember changes in "make"'s basic syntax? I don't...)
No, as far as I am aware make still has all the irritations and limitations that it's had for decades.
even when you have a "fat" line to the Internet. The tarball snapshots of the repositories are not really an option in the long run IMHO and defeat the purpose of a versioning tool.
I don't really see why it defeats the purpose. There are a lot of problems more serious than needing to download a tarball in order to get an up-to-date repo quickly.
To be usable, a speedup of at least factor 10 would be required. Is there any hope for this?
Patch application can be sped up with a planned change of hunk format. If downloading lots of small patch files individually is the problem then darcs could tar them up when checkpointed tags are made. So yes, I think there is hope; it just needs some development time put in. Thanks Ian