[darcs-devel] Congrats: All Darcs-2 release-critical bugs resolved

[Jules Colding]

On 21/03/2008, at 01.43, Mark Stosberg wrote:
> One bug I think deserves consideration for the 2.0 release is the
> failure to build on Windows. Our Windows/Cygwin buildbot continues  
> to fail
> consistently:
>
> http://darcs.net:8008/windows-cygwin/builds/39/step-compile/0
>
> And we just got a very similar bug report for a build failure on  
> Vista:
> http://bugs.darcs.net/issue751
>
> On the other hand, if there haven't been Windows developers around to
> fix such a basic issue in the last few weeks, perhaps we shouldn't
> expect them to appear soon to address it for a release.

I'm not a haskell developer so unfortunately I don't think I can help  
fixing the build failure on windows, but I really believe that it  
should be. It is critical to all considering to use or already using  
darcs for software that builds on multiple platforms. But that aside,  
it seems like it is simply zlib that is missing so maybe I can do some  
good anyway. I'll take a look at building darcs on Windows when I get  
back to my office after the easter holidays (late next week).

Best regards,
   jules