[darcs-users] darcs and ghc..

[Simon Marlow]

I just made this binary available from the darcs download page.  Here's a link:

http://www.haskell.org/~simonmar/darcs-2.0.2+75.zip

This is built with curl 7.18.2 and has pipelining enabled.

Cheers,
	Simon

Simon Marlow wrote:
> The attached patches make darcs build on Windows for me using GHC 
> 6.8.3.  I ran 'make test' and most tests passed, except
> 
> TESTS FAILED!
>         pull.sh
> 
> which is much better than I've seen before.
> 
> 
> The threadWaitRead issue is even more subtle than I realised.  In fact 
> darcs does respond to ^C, but only after you press it twice.  I think 
> the reason is this:
> 
>      c <- hLookAhead stdin `catch` \_ -> return ' '
> 
> this catch is catching the first ^C exception and discarding it.  I 
> notice that there are several places in Darcs.Utils that catch all 
> exceptions and discard them, which is generally considered not good 
> style - you could discard all kinds of interesting exceptions.
> 
> Cheers,
>     Simon
> 
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