Re: [Haskell-cafe] Guidelines for proposing library changes

On 11/9/06, Samuel Bronson wrote:

On 11/7/06, Simon Marlow wrote:

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Samuel Bronson wrote:

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Well, you have to do it to your local repo, too. And if it is a --partial one, good luck! I can't even get --partial to grab me an older checkpoint properly :-(. Nevermind trying to reproduce the bug as simply as possible...

Both Igloo and I have seen strange behaviour w.r.t. partial repositories with GHC. In my case, I find it hard to decide what is really a bug. Igloo said he'd try to reproduce a buggy case on a smaller repository, but we're keeping him too busy with GHC :-) If anyone else can help us out here - characterise a bug report for the darcs folk - we'd be very grateful.

Personally I was hoping lispy's simulations would turn something up... I already found one bug, but nobody seems to have looked at it yet :-(. But it wasn't the bug I was looking for.

These are not the bugs you are looking for. ;) Some darcs bugs take a very long time to get fixed. If something about darcs bugs you I highly recommend you take a peek at the source code. Especially you Sam. You know enough haskell to send in a patch to GHC, surely you will find darcs grokable. :) As for the darcs user simulator, lispy hasn't written the simulator yet but he only has about 3 weeks left to do it. And when it's written it will be found here (in scala instead of haskell due to a course requirement): http://www.codersbase.com/index.php/DarcsSim Jason