[darcs-users] darcsless on the other end

[Gwern Branwen]

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On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 11:40 PM, Tom Hawkins  wrote:
> Today our software group was able to migrate from Cygwin/Windows to
> Linux, which allowed us to move from darcs 1.0.9 to 2.1.2.  We all
> noticed the improvements right away.  Many thanks!
>
> However, we had one minor annonyance in the transition.  The Linux
> shell hosting company we use for our common repository has a pretty
> old version of glibc.  GHC 6.8.1 was the newest version I was able to
> get installed to build darcs on the server.  My concern is at some
> point, darcs will require a later version of GHC, and this will send
> me shopping for a new shell/VPS provider, which is always a total
> pain, usually ending in frustration and disappointment.
>
> This got me thinking... Is there any way to use darcs to access a
> remote repository through ssh, but without having darcs installed on
> the remote server?  If not, this might be a feature worth considering.
>  It's always a battle to get "custom" software installed and running
> on a server controlled by a hosting company.  However, ssh is provided
> by default, and maybe logging in and transferring files is all that's
> needed for darcs.  Just a thought.
>
> Thanks again, and have a Happy New Year.
>
> -Tom

I'm not really sure what you mean by 'using darcs to access a remote
repository'. What operations do you want to do?

I mean, 'darcs get' doesn't depend on the remote repo having darcs
(it's just copying files), but something like 'darcs put' (whose
documentation
http://darcs.net/manual/node8.html#SECTION00843000000000000000 claims
it is basically a 'darcs init' remotely and then a 'darcs push'
locally) maybe not so much.

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gwern
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