[darcs-users] "Official" binaries

[Eric Kow]

On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 13:37:39 +0100, Salvatore Insalaco wrote:
> I've produced a "working" Windows binary of 2.1.2 release, with curl,
> SSL and pipelining support.
> I'd call it a "official windows preview" binary: it still needs
> testing, but it's a good start.

Great!

> Unfortunately zooko auto-built binary doesn't have curl support (slow
> http, no proxy support), and Simon Marlow's one uses a curl version
> with some bugs in pipelining (it often hangs during large downloads).

Zooko: that's worth taking note of

> Where should I put it? I think that our wiki doesn't support binary
> attachments.

Do you have a place where you can personally host it?  If not, perhaps
Zooko would be generous enough to offer you some space?

At some point in the future, we'll need to decide if we are ready to
offer official binaries (as in from darcs.net and signed by people on
the darcs team), and set up the infrastructure.

Thanks all!

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