[darcs-users] http://code.haskell.org/darcs/packs is back

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Gwern Branwen writes:

 > It seems to me that one big repo backwards-incompatibility was bad
 > enough; is there no way packs could be implemented such that 2.x
 > binaries simply ignore packs and download patches like normal if they
 > do not support packs?

Since darcs can't use dumb servers yet AFAIK, this is an issue of
whether format negotiation is available darcs-to-darcs.  If it is,
then you just have the darcs with the data send patches unless packs
are requested.