<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 5:44 AM, Sittampalam, Ganesh <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ganesh.sittampalam@credit-suisse.com">ganesh.sittampalam@credit-suisse.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">Eric Kow wrote:<br>
<br>
> Also... (below is a non-blocker in my opinion)<br>
><br>
> Get rid of wait_a_moment, since we do not use pristine timestamps<br>
> anymore.<br>
><br>
------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>
--<br>
>> -wait_a_moment :: IO ()<br>
>> -wait_a_moment = do { sleep 1; return () }<br>
>> - -- HACKERY: In ghc 6.1, sleep has the type signature IO Int; it<br>
>> - -- returns an integer just like sleep(3) does. To stay<br>
>> compatible<br>
>> - -- with older versions, though, we just ignore sleep's return<br>
>> - -- value. Hackery, like I said.<br>
><br>
> I didn't see this mentioned anywhere, but I trust the two of you have<br>
> worked out how this impacts old-fashioned repositories and whether or<br>
> not we actually need to care...<br>
<br>
</div>I believe that darcs-hs doesn't look at the timestamps any more, which<br>
is (a) why it's slow on old-fashioned repos and (b) why this is no<br>
longer necessary.<br></blockquote><div><br>Yay!<br><br>Jason</div></div><br>