[darcs-devel] libwww bug

[David Roundy]

On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 02:05:05AM +0300, Dmitry Kurochkin wrote:
> Here is a patch which adds basic error reporting in libwww. Now it
> should fail on error and print error code at least.

Libwww still doesn't fail, it just returns an empty file.

> Is the repo you get failure with public?

Sure, it's the xmonad repository

http://code.haskell.org/xmonad

and I've got a local repository that's missing a few patches and has a
couple that aren't in the main repository.  When I do a darcs send
--dry-run, I get a failure.  I don't think this is specific to this
repository, but I'll send you (offlist) a tarball of my repository anyhow.
I'll be very interested in hearing whether you get the same error.

David

> 2008/1/10, David Roundy <droundy at darcs.net>:
> > On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 03:57:09PM -0500, David Roundy wrote:
> > > I can confirm a speedup of better than a factor of four in download times
> > > using the new libwww code by Dmitry that I'm right now pushing:
> >
> > Alas, it appears that there is a bug in the libwww code.  I am able to
> > reproducibly trigger errors with my xmonad repository, in which a download
> > fails without giving a failure message.  It exits with success, but the
> > downloaded file has size zero.  :(  So I'm deprecating the libwww bindings
> > for now (making them non-default, but leaving them there, so interested
> > folks could compile with them using configure --with-libwww), and plan to
> > remove them before the 2.0 release, unless they get fixed (and I don't have
> > time to fix them).