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

[Eric Kow]

Hi David,

On Sun, Nov 02, 2008 at 09:04:11 -0500, 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.

Would you feel more comfortable with this upgrade (from zlib 0.4 to 0.5)
if we held a snap poll of developers, asking if anybody would actually
object to upgrading their zlib?

This is for the (likely rare) darcs developer who has installed the
Haskell zlib package to make building darcs easier on Windows.  Note
that upgrading your zlib should consist in:

wget http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/zlib/0.5.0.0/zlib-0.5.0.0.tar.gz
tar xzvf zlib-0.5.0.0
cd zlib-0.5.0.0
runhaskell Setup configure
runhaskell Setup build
runhaskell Setup install

(for cabal-install users; simply cabal update, then cabal upgrade zlib)

Thanks!

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Eric Kow <http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Eric.Kow>
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