[darcs-users] darcs patch: switch to zlib 0.5.0.0 with new interface for specifyi...

[David Roundy]

On Sun, Nov 02, 2008 at 02:16:21PM +0000, Ganesh Sittampalam wrote:
> On Sun, 2 Nov 2008, David Roundy wrote:
> 
> >It may be true that there aren't many users who have installed zlib, but
> >most likely *every* darcs developer who has compiled darcs on windows has
> >installed the older version of zlib, and I don't see why we shouldn't spend
> >a few lines of code to allow them to upgrade zlib at their leisure rather
> >than forcing them (including myself) to upgrade immediately.
> 
> Well, I don't want to write the code, I don't want to maintain it, and I 
> strongly believe it shouldn't be in darcs long-term, because it's just one 
> more configuration that we ought to test if we support.
> 
> It might make a small amount of sense to have it in temporarily with an 
> explicit decision that it'd be removed within a few months, but I don't 
> think that the amount of hassle saved by a small number of developers 
> being able to delay an upgrade that they should make at some point anyway 
> can possibly outweigh the amount of hassle it would be to write and test 
> the change.

Sorry, almost the same reasoning goes for your 0.0.5 code.  Dropping
support for an existing library that's currently in use just to achieve a
small performance gain is unwise.  Sorry.
-- 
David Roundy
http://www.darcs.net