[darcs-users] Future of Darcs: Thanks for the poll responses and increase in contributors

[Gaëtan Lehmann]

Le 10 août 08 à 12:01, Max Battcher a écrit :

> Gaëtan Lehmann wrote:
>> Given my recent experience — last june, I had to switch one of my  
>> repository to subversion, to be able to collaborate with someone  
>> working on windows — I would say that windows support is a much  
>> important issue than the performance one.
>
> Do you have any specific Windows issues that your partner  
> experienced that you could share.  I'm sure many would appreciate  
> any details as that can lead towards solutions.
>
> For example: I, for one, use darcs on Windows as a major part of my  
> development, and I've been contemplating writing better Windows  
> documentation for darcs, so I'd be happy to try to figure out some  
> of the spots where people have problems that can be solved through  
> better documentation.


Just to give an example of what gone wrong, here is a part of the  
discussion we had on IRC:

2008-05-24T00:02:08  <gaetan> did you sent the patch by mail?
2008-05-24T00:02:51  <__Ali__> no
2008-05-24T00:03:00  <__Ali__> by darcs send
2008-05-24T00:03:25  <gaetan> but darcs send should open a mail window  
I think
2008-05-24T00:04:10  <__Ali__> yes it does
2008-05-24T00:04:17  <__Ali__> and then it doesnt send the mail
2008-05-24T00:04:27  <__Ali__> I:\dev\itk\WrapITK-cvs\WrapITK- 
unstable>I:\dev\darcsdir-w32\darcs send
2008-05-24T00:04:27  <__Ali__> Creating patch to "http://voxel.jouy.inra.fr/darcs/contrib-itk/WrapITK-unstable 
"
2008-05-24T00:04:27  <__Ali__> ...
2008-05-24T00:04:27  <__Ali__> Fri May 23 21:32:40 GMT Daylight Time  
2008  Ali
2008-05-24T00:04:28  <__Ali__>   * taking care of _Complex_base in  
igenerator
2008-05-24T00:04:28  <__Ali__> Shall I send this patch? (1/1)   
[ynWsfvpxdaqjk], or ? for help:
2008-05-24T00:04:30  <__Ali__> What is the target email address? gaetan.lehmann at jouy.inra.fr
2008-05-24T00:04:32  <__Ali__> darcs: openFd: permission denied  
(Permission denied)
2008-05-24T00:04:37  <__Ali__> you'r having a good time on linux
2008-05-24T00:04:52  <__Ali__> every step in windows is a pain
2008-05-24T00:05:09  <gaetan> I see that :-)
2008-05-24T00:05:14  <__Ali__> how can i manually send it?
2008-05-24T00:05:25  <gaetan> you can do "darcs send -o patch"
2008-05-24T00:05:35  <gaetan> and send me the file "patch"
2008-05-24T00:06:19  <__Ali__> I:\dev\itk\WrapITK-cvs\WrapITK- 
unstable>I:\dev\darcsdir-w32\darcs send -o patch
2008-05-24T00:06:19  <__Ali__> Creating patch to "http://voxel.jouy.inra.fr/darcs/contrib-itk/WrapITK-unstable 
"
2008-05-24T00:06:19  <__Ali__> ...
2008-05-24T00:06:19  <__Ali__> Fri May 23 21:32:40 GMT Daylight Time  
2008  Ali
2008-05-24T00:06:19  <__Ali__>   * taking care of _Complex_base in  
igenerator
2008-05-24T00:06:19  <__Ali__> Shall I send this patch? (1/1)   
[ynWsfvpxdaqjk], or ? for help:
2008-05-24T00:06:21  <__Ali__> darcs: I:/dev/itk/WrapITK-cvs/WrapITK- 
unstable/patch-0: renameFile: permission d
2008-05-24T00:06:23  <__Ali__> enied (Permission denied)
2008-05-24T00:06:40  <__Ali__> something to do with vista

Also, he didn't succeed to push patches directly through ssh.

Gaëtan


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Gaëtan Lehmann
Biologie du Développement et de la Reproduction
INRA de Jouy-en-Josas (France)
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