[darcs-users] darcs patch: switch to zlib 0.5.0.0 with new interfac... (and 2 more)

[Trent W. Buck]

"Jason Dagit" <dagit at codersbase.com> writes:

> On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 11:07 AM, Eric Kow <kowey at darcs.net> wrote:
>> On Sun, Nov 02, 2008 at 12:33:05 -0500, David Roundy wrote:
>>> Thanks, Eric, but I really don't want to drop support for zlib 0.0.4 just
>>> yet.  There's absolutely no reason to impose this burden on our developers
>>> (including myself).
>>
>> I think the burden here is really very small, far smaller than the time
>> it would take for us to go through another laborious debate :-)
>>
>> I think if either people respond to the poll (Windows using darcs
>> hackers likely, of which the only active ones I can think of so far are
>> Salvatore and you on Wine) saying they do not object to this move, or if
>> nobody responds (which means nobody actually feels strongly about this),
>> we should just go ahead.  Keep things simple!
>
> I'm sorry but I didn't see the actual poll so I'm replying to it here :)
>
> The zilb 0.5 bindings are important to me if I'm going to do any darcs
> dev on windows.  I already have it installed there where I can build
> darcs using cabal.

As the darcs package maintainer for Debian, I have this to report:

- zlib 0.4.0 is available in Debian, zlib 0.5.0 is not.

- currently I am not using libghc6-zlib-dev; that is, darcs is just
  talking directly to (the C library) zlib.

- Ganesh tells me that "raw" zlib is better than Haskell zlib 0.4.0, so
  I will continue using it until 0.5.0 becomes available in Debian.

Therefore: I have no interest in compatibility with zlib 0.4.0.