[darcs-users] QuickCheck 2.1 now required to build darcs (unstable)

[Trent W. Buck]

On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 12:59:06PM +0000, Eric Kow wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 23:56:58 +1100, Trent W. Buck wrote:
> > As QuickCheck 1.1 is the latest version available in Debian, and Ian
> > is... something[0], I'd be obliged if this dependency could be made
> > optional in the next release.  Otherwise, I won't be able to include
> > that release in Debian!
> > 
> > This might require something ugly like
> > 
> >     ./configure --i-promise-not-to-make-unit
> 
> Fair enough.  We've been requiring QuickCheck 2 for a while now, as
> I understand it.  How have we gotten by so far?

AFAICT, Darcs 2.1.0 will do "./configure && make" successfully without
quickcheck installed -- or possibly it works with quickcheck 1.

Current unstable seems to fail ./configure if QuickCheck isn't
installed, even though AFAIK it ought to be needed only for the unit
tests.