[darcs-devel] Darcs crashes on GHC repository

Ian Lynagh igloo at earth.li
Mon Jul 3 11:17:04 PDT 2006


On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 12:45:53PM -0400, Patrick McFarland wrote:
> On Monday 03 July 2006 12:17, Simon Marlow wrote:
> > On 03 July 2006 17:15, Patrick McFarland wrote:
> > > On Monday 03 July 2006 09:33, Simon Marlow wrote:
> > >> [ posting on behalf of simonpj at microsoft.com, who tried to post the
> > >> message earlier but it doesn't seem to have shown up, so here it is,
> > >> just in case it got swallowed.  Also Simon submitted bugs to
> > >> bugs at darcs.net, which appear to have been lost, so I created tickets
> > >> manually. ]
> > >
> > > Look, no offense, but how do we know this isn't some sort of
> > > Microsoft war against open source?
> > >
> > > "Oh, look, theres a bunch of bad bugs in Darcs, and it stops software
> > > development! Quick! Switch to a Microsoft solution, and all will be
> > > well!"
> > >
> > > Microsoft has done that before, how do we know you're not doing this
> > > now?
> >
> > Are you serious??!
> 
> Yes, and this isn't a troll either. I'm sorry, but I don't trust people with 
> microsoft email addresses, and a lot of people in the foss community don't. 
> 
> Do I have to go get the mutating penguin troll ad Microsoft put out a few 
> years back?

For those who are unfamiliar with the cast, Patrick has the dubious
honour of being the only (non-spammer) I've had to ban from the #darcs
IRC channel, while the Simons at Microsoft are the principal authors of
the only compiler capable of building darcs.


Thanks
Ian





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