Re: [xmonad] Upgrading repo formats

On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 6:27 PM, Gwern Branwen wrote:

On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 10:14 PM, Gwern Branwen wrote:

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On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 3:40 PM, adam vogt wrote:

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On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 1:16 PM, Gwern Branwen wrote:

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While waiting on a slow connection today to darcs get XMC, I had time to ponder. The patches are (or would be) in my global cache, so it could go much faster. Why doesn't it? Because xmonad-contrib and xmonad-core are both still using darcs-1 fomatted repositories.

Is there any particular reason to not upgrade? Even Debian Stable has Darcs 2.x (http://packages.debian.org/lenny/darcs), so it's not as if there are many people who would be unable to do a darcs get.

-- gwern

I support this.

Since this isn't something we can easily rollback, (without the messy situation of keeping the unupgraded repository updated in parallel), it is important to have some consensus before updating repo formats.

What now? Nobody has objected here, and it's been several days, so I would guess not many will object in the future.

Not very many people have weighed in (though everyone seems to support it), so I'm trying advertising on the Xmonad reddit to get some more eyes on this thead: http://www.reddit.com/r/xmonad/comments/casq8/proposal_upgrading_xmonad_darc...

It has been several months now, and I haven't seen anyone really object. It would seem there is consensus to upgrade the repos. So I guess now it's all up to Don and Spencer to actually carry out the upgrade; not a hard thing, but it does require some modicum of work on their part. -- gwern